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Re:Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy by La1n on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:54PM (#21827381)
Google has a lot of influence in what people see and read. In that way the definitely have a lot of power. "Force" doesn't have to be military, soft power[1] is very much able to change policy, culture and views of people, and google holds more than a lot nation states.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

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Re:Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy by pdonis on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:53PM (#21828659)
> Google has a lot of influence in what people see and read.

Google only has as much influence as individual users of their services give it.

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Re:Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy by aprvchndrs on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:35AM (#21834733)
And a lot of people give Google that power.

Which means Google holds a lot of soft power in the eyes of the government.

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Re:Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy by pdonis on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:05AM (#21836099)
But the government can't "fix" that by regulating. Governments trying to regulate things to shield people from the consequences of their own bad decisions doesn't work.
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