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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by grawprog on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:35PM (#20973596)
>I'm not sure that we as a society have ever dealt with a non-state actor this powerful before.

The east India trading company and the hudson's bay company as well as I'm sure some others were as large as or larger than some state actors of their time.

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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by wavefunction on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:10PM (#20973824)
A fine point and two significant examples that illustrate the dangers of unfettered corporations.
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