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Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competito... by chroma on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:56AM (#24730488)
OK, now judge governments by those same standards. I don't see Facebook invading Iraq on false pretenses, or imprisoning people for the crime of smoking marijuana, or shooting an unarmed guy for failing to follow conflicting commands.[1]

Hopefully now you understand where the libertarians and ancaps are coming from. It's not that corporations are good. It's that governments are so much worse.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver

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Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competito... by kyuudou on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:37AM (#24730937)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (well, I do, but...) but governments are what enable corporations to be the bad actors they are. They would not get so large, powerful and unwieldy in a free market where corporations have as much or more rights as human beings, i.e. corporate personhood.
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