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		pdonis on Dec 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy > Google has a lot of influence in what people see and read. Google only has as much influence as individual users of their services give it.

aprvchndrs on Dec 19, 2019 [–]

And a lot of people give Google that power.

Which means Google holds a lot of soft power in the eyes of the government.

pdonis on Dec 19, 2019 | [–]

But the government can't "fix" that by regulating. Governments trying to regulate things to shield people from the consequences of their own bad decisions doesn't work.

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