Google's response to the European Commission fine

Re:Google's response to the European Commission fine by Firebrand on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:22AM (#14646205)

>So why the heck would you not support an action that stops a giant corporation from stiffling the most important mechanism of capitalism?

Because it's not the government's job to unclog the market. It's the entrepreneur's opportunity to disrupt the market and kick Google's ass.

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Re:Google's response to the European Commission fine by andrepd on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:45PM (#14646967)

When you come down from the cloud-land of capitalist heaven you will find this is not even remotely what happens.

Capitalism is inherently anti-competitive. Larger established companies have more power than the idealized "entrepreneur" that libertarians like to posit. If a competitor appears they can simply force them to shutdown, via dumping, via legal harassment, or simply by virtue of being much larger and being able to do everything more efficiently and with larger margins. Government regulation is needed to prevent monopolies. This is self-evident.

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Re:Google's response to the European Commission fine by AsyncAwait on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:23PM (#14646793)

So if a private company skips regulations, it's not the government's job to enforce them?

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