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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by bobdole12345 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:38PM (#23436334)
Yes, that's why the US has the most absurd cell phone network even while I sit in Silicon Valley, but I don't have reception in a half dozen places during my commute, or in my home.

Why I pay absurd amounts more for my healthcare, even when I can choose between several different insurance companies.

That's why my power in a massive center in California is completely unreliable here, I've experienced more power failures in the past year in a major city than I did in 30 years in the middle of fucking nowhere Canada.

Because competition makes it work.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by TomMarius on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:25AM (#23437844)
Well, seems like your country is broken, maybe you should reconsider your apparently destructive regulations. Fairly free competition does make it work year-round and cheap all around Europe.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by buzzkillington on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:02AM (#23436734)
Natural monopolies are best run by the government.

That's why Mussolini got the trains to run on time. He also used them to ship all the Jews to concentration camps, but what's a few million lives compared to being slightly inconvenienced?

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by vkou on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:14AM (#23437789)
This is false. Italy did not ship its Jews to concentration camps during WWII.

After Italy switches sides, and joined the Allies, the Germans, who quickly occupied northern Italy immediately started carrying out the Holocaust.

They were not very successful, because of resistance and non-cooperation by Italian civilian authorities. Less than 10% of Italy's jewish population died in the Holocaust. (Compared to 50% of Romania's, 90% of Poland's, 70% of Hungary's, 30% of Austria's, and 90% of Greece's)

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by 8note on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:42AM (#23437096)
Some of them got on ships, where the Americans competed to see who could send the most back, of course
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