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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by jbreckmckye on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:27AM (#15739705)
> There's many examples of things that govt's fail badly at

There are also countless examples of privatisation disasters. Source: am British.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by japano1se on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:25AM (#15740503)
It's almost as if boiling something complicated down to "government vs private companies" and saying "one is good and the other is evil" is wrong and stupid.
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by mnx on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:54AM (#15739848)
Yes, obviously. Although those often are to some degree a result of corruption. But I am not claiming the government is universally worse at all things.
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by ska on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:55AM (#15740238) 

    Although those often are to some degree a result of corruption.
It's not clear that this is a useful distinction to make.
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