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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by eternalban on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:36AM (#25100710)
King Philip IV of France took a practical approach in dealing with a similar problem. [Two days ago], Friday the 13th, was the 713th anniversary of his solution to the thorny problem of sovreign conflicts with powerful transnational organizations. That is the day he smashed the Templars in France.

Philip tweeted: "Dieu n'est pas content, nous avons des ennemis de la foi dans le Royaume"

("God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom")

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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by rpastuszak on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:38AM (#25101966)
> King Philip IV of France took a practical approach in dealing with a similar problem.

AFAIK his problem was slighly differentβ€”he owed them money :)

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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by justinclift on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:33AM (#25101927)
> Philip tweeted ...

Wow. Twitter sure has been around a lot longer than most people realised. ;)

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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by readams on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:25AM (#25101866)
Are you proposing that the EU government should murder all Google employees in the EU in order to consolidate its own power and control?
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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by ovi256 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:52AM (#25102072)
Why do you make than inflammatory analogy ? Even Philip IV didn't kill all templars, only the senior leadership. The rank and file templars joined other orders.
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Re:Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of ... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:07AM (#25102178)
It draws attention to the inflammatory premise of the original comment, that Google ought to be thankful France isn't taking "a practical approach". A king murdering the leaders of an organization that got in his way is not a positive example of regulatory power!
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