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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by i_am_proteus on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:38PM (#20920966)
The title is slightly confusing. According to AP,[0] current participants are 48 States, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. California and Alabama are not involved.

[0] https://www.apnews.com/042b0989b2404c34a57e8ff9c8bbd0db

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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by partialrecall on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:54PM (#20921116)
I can't say California surprises me, but I wonder what the deal with Alabama is.
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by RandomTisk on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:15PM (#20921314)
Are we so far gone that we can't even expect the largest state by population and GDP to help police it's own mega corps to the benefit of the rest of the country? No doubt Google represents a massive chunk of Democrat donations... it's rather alarming that California is just sitting this out.
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by zer0faith on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:03PM (#20921196)
This is why http://www.madeinalabama.com/2018/04/google-kicks-off-constr...
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by peterebailey on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:40PM (#20921622)
Google has datacenters in other states, too.
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by ssalka on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:28PM (#20921482)
>100 jobs
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by rtkwe on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:33PM (#20921539)
Yeah but it'll also provide some good money to businesses during construction too.
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by whenchamenia on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:47AM (#20925116)
California, leading by example again. /s
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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by rolltiide on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:04PM (#20921205)
50 = 48 states, 1 district and 1 territory

oh but title said territories plural, red alert

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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by wahern on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:24PM (#20921418)
There's probably a rule of grammar that in such a phrase the noun must agree with the quantifier, even when the noun is part of an aggregate. "50 states and territory" doesn't sound right at all. "48 states and 1 territory" sounds stilted. Better to say "48 states and the District of Columbia", but once you include Puerto Rico it gets too wordy.

The original title seems like the best option. Also, D.C. is a territory in a loose sense (part of the U.S. but not a state), just not the same formal category of territory as Puerto Rico. It's an immaterial distinction in a headline such as this.

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