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Re:The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical by free_rms on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:47AM (#25254239)
Because eventually all other values besides profit for 5 companies will be sacrificed if you go down that road.

Why do consumers need the government to enforce child labor laws? FDA regulation? OSHA? These lessons are written in blood.

Yes, you might need to work on the regulation in order to get it just right but "who cares, whatever" is not acceptable unless we want to live in an effectively-communist world with a few vertically-integrated corporations setting all the rules.

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Re:The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical by throwaway2048 on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:16PM (#25256165)
It would be great if every conversation about regulation on HN wasn't dominated by posts re-litigating if the concept of regulations should exist in the first place.
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Re:The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical by cordellwren on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:12AM (#25275649)
Agree with everything you said except for the fact that you seem to be using "communist" to mean "authoritarian/fascist."
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