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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by conanbatt on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:58AM (#15738297)
> After all, nobody is forcing you to have and use electricity. So why should power companies be regulated?

It is absolutely possible to have privatized power supply.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by builditand on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:11AM (#15738339)
Regulated and privatized are not mutually exclusive, some activity can be privatized and regulated in the same time.

Edit: to elaborate a little, one shows the ownership form and the other how free of constrains is that activity on the market.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by Swizec on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:42AM (#15738427)
> It is absolutely possible to have privatized power supply.

It is. And power companies should be regulated anyway.

For example: to provide current within specific parameters so the white smoke doesn’t escape our devices.

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