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Re:Don’t Mess with The Google by amelius on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:18AM (#12975801)
Gmail is part of the chain of technology that lets me communicate, so I think a comparison with a telco is fair.

Also there could be a distinction in the law for mass communication, e.g. #users > 1M.

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Re:Don’t Mess with The Google by peeters on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:36PM (#12980080)
> Gmail is part of the chain of technology that lets me communicate, so I think a comparison with a telco is fair.

And it's actually harder to switch to a secondary. With my ISP, if they cut me off I can fall back on my cell provider within minutes. I have no such failover for my Google services.

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