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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by dang on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:51PM (#25449263)
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by jeffbee on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:03PM (#25449401)
How is that unrelated? The lead AG in this suit filed a different suit less than a week ago with some incredibly spurious reasoning, including that the president-elect of the USA stood only a 1-per-1000000000000000 chance of having won the election fairly.
Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by dang on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:52PM (#25450935)
It's a different suit on a different topic and there is a substantive article to discuss about it. I assume the courts will consider this case on its merits, so I don't see why we shouldn't.

If the thread turns into an argument about the election, the discussion will become entirely predictable, angry and stupid, which is not interesting, which is off topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)