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[Loud Whispers]

Semanticism rules the day again!

But it rules over nothing...

[scriver]

Bah, semantics!

[miauw62]

The idiocy never ends.

I'm pretty sure I read about this like half a year ago.

Anyway, if Google is forced to pay for news sites they list they'll simply stop listing those sites and they will lose more money than they could ever have gained from Google paying them.

[Helgoland]

Various publishers tried something like that in Germany a while back. They failed miserably.

[Loud Whispers]

Google has terrifying amounts of power, one would do wisely to either work with them or set them on fire

[mainiac]

Natural monopolies exist.  If the government is going to be a shitshow when it comes to regulating them it's a relief to know that the people controlling them dont feel like abusing their power.

[Loud Whispers]

Chances that Google does not abuse their power = 0%
You don't get rid of your don't be evil clause for no reason

[martinuzz]

Belgium's Privacy Committee just won a case against another internet giant.
The Belgian Court ruled today that Facebook will have to stop tracking any Belgian person that does not have a Facebook account within 48 hours, or be fined 250 thousand euros per day it does not comply.

If you ever visit a Facebook link page, even f you do not have a Facebook account yourself, Facebook inserts a tracking program that will track your internet use whenever you visit any page that has a "like" button link.
That is, except if you live in Belgium, from now on, since the judge ruled this behaviour unacceptable breach of national privacy laws.

It is expected that privacy committees in other countries will follow Belgium's example and take Facebook to court there too. The Dutch institute for guarding privacy is already investigating breaches of privacy law by Facebook, and is expected to bring it to court soon.

[mainiac]

Chances that Google does not abuse their power = 0%
You don't get rid of your don't be evil clause for no reason

 

Chance that a government does not abuse it's power = 0%
Chance that you dont abuse your power = 0%

All I'm saying is that google is a pretty benign monopoly at the moment compared to a lot of companies out there.

[Loud Whispers]

All I'm saying is I'd rather not have to choose Hitler or Stalin

[Sergarr]

I'm surprised this is not yet here. Catalonia is making some daring moves. Something tells me this is going to end badly.

[Loud Whispers]

Doom for Spain soon

[Bouchart]

Between Catalonia's independence movement and Spain's financial problems the country will probably be a dictatorship soon enough.  Wouldn't be the first time.

[redwallzyl]

Thats an interesting development

[Bouchart]

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