Quote:Google doesn't actually have a monopoly here so antitrust legislation wouldn't work.I wonder about that. Is there an effective alternative to AdSense, or to Google Earth? (The courts have ruled that "effective monopoly" equals "monopoly" in the past... but the same courts have also ruled that they aren't equal. No way to know how this one would come out unless and until it comes before the courts.)
Quote:I mean, the only punishment we have for that is hitting their reputation and fining them and you said that is insufficient.Well, they don't seem to notice when we do that. If the point to punishment is to bring about a change in behaviour, then this particular punishment applied to this particular company isn't working.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012