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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by CamperBob2 on Friday June 23, 2017 @08:33PM (#14623751)
Corporations didn't murder a hundred million of their own customers in the last century alone. It takes a government to do that. Consequently, governments have to be held to higher standards, not lower ones.
Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by dragonwriter on Friday June 23, 2017 @08:39PM (#14623777)
> Corporations didn't murder a hundred million of their own customers in the last century alone.

Yes, they did. Probably just tobacco companies alone.

> It takes a government to do that.

Since corporations are creatures of government, that's true by definition of everything corporations do.

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by CamperBob2 on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:18PM (#14623891)
Yes, they did. Probably just tobacco companies alone.

A response as silly as it was predictable. Show me a Gulag Archipelago written about the tobacco industry and we'll have some grounds for further discussion.

Since corporations are creatures of government, that's true by definition of everything corporations do.

Ditto.

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by dragonwriter on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:28PM (#14623923)
> Show me a Gulag Archipelago written about the tobacco industry and we'll have some grounds for further discussion.

So if no one writes world class literature about your crimes, they didn't happen?

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by CamperBob2 on Saturday June 24, 2017 @04:12PM (#14627276)
At some point, you'll come to understand that not every debate can be reduced to an exercise in moral relativism and dismissed with a flourish of false equivalence.

That works well enough on HN, as seen in the moderation in this thread, but not in real life.