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Re:Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent by tiagobertolo on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:47PM (#15253441)
How is your government capitalist? You are drowned in bureaucracy, taxes and debt not capitalism.

I am not taking this story as an example. Most of southern Europe countries are far from being capitalist.

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Re:Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent by duncan_bayne on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:43AM (#15255119)
He said "crony capitalist", which is quite a different thing to capitalist.
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Re:Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent by setgree on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:18AM (#15357692)
I personally prefer the word "corporatist" for this phenomenon to avoid this ambiguity. Crony-captalist has an anti-capitalist tinge, which I don't favor, but is one reason why I think is has been adopted broadly.
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