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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by abraae on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:00AM (#15583947)
> You are saying it like there's something good in extorting money from foreign companies because we own the territory, so damn it if you're going to do business here without paying us protection money.

This is how the world works.

If your country has the oil, you get to reap the benefits.

For Facebook, the resource is the population. If Facebook grows rich off the backs of your population, you have every right to tax that.

Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up by smsm42 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:08AM (#15591035)
It is always nice when the population is viewed not as human beings but as commodity owned by the government and can be rented out to foreign concessions. Not always admitted that openly, though.