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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by TaylorAlexander on Saturday June 22, 2024 @05:29AM (#40757644)
All you said was “You cannot make money off of people who are starving.”

Yes you can, by coercing them in various legal and illegal ways. Your original comment was just the one quoted sentence above. It is not correct.

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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by WalterBright on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:22PM (#40761431)
In a free market. All the examples cited turned out to be the result of government violent coercion, not free markets.
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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by account42 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @05:36AM (#40786351)
And in a truly free market you can buy unicorns because both only exist in fantasy land. In reality there is always some government rules involved that shape the market.
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