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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:23 PM EDT |
From a site that likes to beat Microsoft up for being a
monopolist, I can't understand the pro-Google rhetoric
around here.
Sure, people could in theory use another search engine.
People upset with Microsoft could have gone to Apple. Or
run Linux.
The fact that you have competitors doesn't mean you can't
have significant market power, and doesn't bar you from
abusing that market power to the detriment of consumers.
This petition argues otherwise - it says anything Google
does ought to be considered protected speech, and ought to
be barred from any oversight or investigation. That's a
better deal than TV or radio advertisers get (for example).
Simply put "search results are free speech" is the wrong
argument. The fact that it's made for the right reasons
(Google's competitors are trying to use the government to
undermine them) doesn't make it the right argument.
Quite a lot of bad law with serious negative and thorny
consequences came about by well-intentioned people trying to
achieve the right immediate result and not worrying about
the implications or legal principals behind what they
advocated.
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