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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by cameronbrown on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:48AM (#20993015)
I've worked with small businesses - the small one to thirty person plummer or photographer or decorator type. What you're asking for is fundamentally impossible. Business and entrepreneurship is a human process where two entities find a transaction that benefits them both.

Of course this breaks down when shady actors manipulate in bad faith, but that's the price of freedom. To put a ban into place as extensive as you're suggesting would be to regulate speech as far as I'm concerned.

Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:42AM (#20994272)
You're just reinforcing the point that we're in too deep for it to be a comfortable transition.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by cameronbrown on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:28AM (#20994784)
Not really. I understand your complaint, but what you're saying would kill entrepreneurship. How else can companies compete if they're not even allowed to go 'hey, I think we've got a better solution at a lower price'.