Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ...
by witty_username on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:12AM
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What protection is provided solely based on market principles?
I think corporations are part of market principles.
Your analogy is incorrect because the rights are different.
But more generally I see it like this: Without the law, Google would not exist as a legal entity. Incorporation is what allows Google to become a legal entity and it is also what protects Google's owners from having their personal possessions seized in case of insolvency.
So Google's owners have asked society for protection beyond what is provided solely based on market principles. In other words, they wanted rights, not just incentives.
I'm asking for the same thing. Rights that are independent of my ability to pay and are difficult to emulate through market mechanisms.