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Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by maxehmookau on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:33AM (#26887680)
This is exactly the completely deregulated free-market economy that op-eds in the daily mail have been asking for for decades.

They don't like it when it comes back to bite them.

Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by roenxi on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:02AM (#26890556)
Being pro-free-market is against the interests of incumbents, and if in fact an incumbent was pro-free-market regardless then that is laudable. Incumbents are protected by regulations.

There is a lot to dislike about the Daily Mail I'm sure (I don't read it). But you aren't catching them in a moment of hypocrisy here. Everyone hates losing, doesn't mean they are wrong about what the rules of the game should be.

Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by rchaud on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:36AM (#26889483)
This is a level of gotcha akin to "NYTimes shows ads, so they have no authority to criticize Google" that we see on HN.
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by sldksk on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:48AM (#26890354)
No, it’s not. Participating in capitalism is not equivalent to advocating for it.
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by comboy on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:38AM (#26887711)
s/burglary/theft then
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by optimalsolver on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:46AM (#26887766)
"No capitalist ever saw a market and wished it free."
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by treeman79 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:36AM (#26888227)
Of course people don’t want to compete. Too bad.

Capitalism is about increasing efficiency / resources through brutal competition.

Just don’t let them make laws giving one group special treatment. Like banning the competition.

Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:02AM (#26888463)
Who don't want to compete with who? This is between a news publisher and a search engine; they're not exactly in the same business.
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by elliekelly on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:14AM (#26888579)
Sure they are: they both make money from selling ads don’t they?
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by bagacrap on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:32PM (#26894353)
If they're equals does it make sense to ask when's the last time the DM sent traffic to Google?
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by treeman79 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#26889947)
Google news
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:51PM (#26895916)
The article says the DM is accusing Google of burying the DM's results in favor of other news outlets'. The dispute is not about Google favoring its own news, as if there were such a thing, over the DM's.
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by vixen99 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:33AM (#26888204)
A completely deregulated free-market economy would have no recourse to the courts. Such does not exist. I have no idea regarding the merits of the case but so far we don't know who's to get bitten.
Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:00AM (#26888443)
Courts are integral to a free market. Without them all sorts of markets evaporate completely.

More generally, having a market does not mean having a government that supplies no public goods -- that is, having a government, since supplying public goods is all a government does.

Re:Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:05PM (#26896021)
The confusion may be a linguistic one -- conflation of the terms "competitive" and "unregulated", and of "a" market with "the" market.

The existence of some free markets does not imply that every market is free. Excepting failed states, nowhere is every market free -- the markets for grenades, ivory, medical licenses, political appointments, assassinations, etc. are all things most of us want either tightly controlled or entirely suppressed.

And even in an extremely competitive market, like the ones for lettuce or generic drugs, there are still important roles for government to play. Of course regulation can be and often is grossly wasteful, even corrupt. But it's also critical to our safety.