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Re:How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (2012) by slgeorge on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:17AM (#7441326)
> Regulation isn't an appropriate response

The previous poster is from Europe, I'm guessing that you're from North America. In which case your definition of an "appropriate response" to societal problems and market externalities is completely different.

Regulating in order to maximise the value to all of society is perfectly appropriate for Europeans.

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Re:How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (2012) by jbb555 on Friday March 21, 2014 @08:29AM (#7441825)
Speak for yourself.
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Re:How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (2012) by ahomescu1 on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:19PM (#7446470)
I'm also from Europe, and I agree with icedog.
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Re:How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (2012) by slgeorge on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:50AM (#7487186)
Sorry - super late reply on this. I wasn't trying to imply that regulation was the 'correct' response as that's a value judgement. I was just trying to point out that the USA and Europe broadly have different views of what a legitimate response is.
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