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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers by magicalist on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:09PM (#18071334)
> Again, the point is that laws (and regulations) are too technologically specific. It's time to update.

To what? Without a convincing basis for the government to regulate a type of speech (like a limiting resource that needs to be licensed), your new law isn't going to make it past the first supreme court challenge.

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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers by stcredzero on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:15PM (#18071366)
(like a limiting resource that needs to be licensed)

Space on the recommended section and monetization is a limiting resource. Basically, human attention and the sum total of all available information are valuable and limited resources, and manipulation of access to those has potentially dangerous and far reaching consequences.

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