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Re:Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents by jiggawatts on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:56PM (#40506037)
You’re responding to someone complaining about an overly authoritative government by saying that you don’t see the problem, it’s just that the local police force tortures people with downright medieval techniques.
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Re:Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents by dgellow on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:51AM (#40510522)
What
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Re:Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents by olliej on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @02:41PM (#40515288)
While I obviously disagree with your prior comment, I feel "What" is a pretty much perfect comment here. +1.

What.

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Re:Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents by jiggawatts on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:39PM (#40517918)
It seems like my analogy was too difficult to follow.

The point is that the fundamental problem is a company in a monopoly position throwing their weight around and/or keeping their product stagnant “because they can”, which is also a function of power. This is the “authoritarian government”.

The police part is referring to people thinking of specific IE6 technical issues “as the problem”, when it’s just a symptom of a larger problem.

Microsoft treated web developers badly because they could. Google will abuse the whole world in the same way now that Chromium has achieved near total dominance.

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