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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by baddox on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:08AM (#24154273)
The British East India company was a government actor. It’s silly to consider them otherwise simply because it was technically a “joint-stock company.” It was part of the government. Wikipedia even notes:

> Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies"

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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by nindalf on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:21AM (#24154367)
> It was part of the government.

It was not. It did not answer to Parliament, only to its shareholders. It has the best of both worlds though, because many powerful MPs were shareholders. So they got govt protection without govt oversight.

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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:39AM (#24154508)
You're definitely focusing on the wrong bit.
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