fyoving

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by fyoving 7y ago
One less person on the payroll to generate negative news and internal strife is surely a positive development.
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by fyoving 7y ago
"EU paid Airbus billions in illegal subsidies, WTO rules" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44120525
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by fyoving 7y ago
Are you litigating the boeing v airbus thing? didn't the WTO rule that airbus is receiving billions in illegal subsidies? And are you suggesting that france doesn't subside specific industries? If you're complaints are exclus
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by fyoving 7y ago
If my math is correct then most of the companies are American, and by far most of the potential revenue. Considering the rhetoric leading to this tax and the french government's many raids and failed investigations into US companies an
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by fyoving 7y ago
Even with recent tariffs, US tariffs are still generally low, it's hardly a poster child for "protectionism", the EU has other barriers in addition to tariffs and much of it is due to french protectionism. If you think that t
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by fyoving 7y ago
Shouldn't be a long inquiry, this tax is textbook discriminatory trade barrier. If you look at EU policy as france and germany protecting their perceived interests by targeting US tech companies it starts making sense, I think a rule
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by fyoving 7y ago
It's curious how when these people complain about corporations not paying taxes they reliably fail to mention that it's because of R&D tax credits. Not sure how wise it is for politicians to employ a populist strategy against
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by fyoving 7y ago
The laws are fine, what we need is to not tailor laws according to selfish political whims or to the whims of publishers and all other inferior competition.
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There Is No Legal Distinction Between a 'Platform' and a 'Publisher'(techdirt.com)
13 points by fyoving 7y ago|1 comments
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by fyoving 7y ago
Luckily for Google in the US the grievances of a company's enemies/competitors don't count for much. I'll credit the WSJ for counting themselves among those enemies, but what I find vexing with all these reports is the c
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by fyoving 7y ago
Eliminating tax deductions and the perverse incentives they entail would be a bigger boon than further taxing the successful and fortunate. The problem isn't a lack in revenue the problem is that we are spending it on the wrong stuff.
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by fyoving 7y ago
Not really, adopting these apps is usually a modest investment on the users' part.
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by fyoving 7y ago
I don't mind the killing off of stuff that doesn't catches on it's a mark of dynamism.
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by fyoving 7y ago
I always thought the name had something to do with it, "google plus" doesn't sound right specially for a social network, also "Hangouts" is a terrible name, it doesn't internationalize well nor does it work for
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by fyoving 7y ago
The author keeps conflating the "hate speech" talking points with what this investigation is actually about, it's like they can't help but pad the article with all their google grievances. It sounds like this is due to C
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by fyoving 7y ago
What's the thinking here? Stopping the merger of the two insignificant players would only shield the major players from real competition.
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by fyoving 7y ago
The NYT is yet to publish a correction to an article publicizing a comically erroneous study suggesting a relationship between Facebook use and attacks on refugees in Germany: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolutio
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by fyoving 7y ago
No politics talk at work seems to be the rational and only solution here.
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by fyoving 7y ago
"Although the Financial Times’ sources don’t explicitly lay out Google’s argument, it’s not difficult to imagine how it would go." That's hilarious, a fourth party in speculating about what might have been said in private a
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European Court of Justice Suggests the Entire Internet Should Be Censored(techdirt.com)
12 points by fyoving 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Was Right Not to Delete the Doctored Video of Nancy Pelosi(techdirt.com)
1 points by fyoving 7y ago|0 comments
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If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?(techdirt.com)
573 points by fyoving 7y ago|180 comments
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by fyoving 7y ago
Says who? Personally I prefer sophisticated software that works to this ill conceived fear mongering notion of privacy.
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by fyoving 7y ago
It's worth remembering that Apple's privacy spin began with people noticing that Siri is a joke and other ML powered functions in Apple's software are not nearly as good as the competition's, so the company line basicall
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by fyoving 7y ago
Allow me to temper some of the glee exhibited in the comments and even in some of the reports but a key line here is: "The divvying of antitrust enforcement does not mean that the agencies have opened official investigations" It
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An Epic Moral Panic over Social Media(techliberation.com)
2 points by fyoving 7y ago|0 comments
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by fyoving 7y ago
The EU has different rules (and extra motivation to go after US companies) they also don't need to win in court, their enforcement action in unilateral.
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by fyoving 7y ago
That's a price fixing/cartel case not a first amendment one.
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by fyoving 7y ago
No one is reporting that the DOJ is considering going to court nor that they have any "case" let alone a "strong" one if the WSJ reports are to be believed it's very preliminary stuff.
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by fyoving 7y ago
I don't know about data accesse rumors but the fact that a bunch of Googlers did government work during the Obama years is well documented, that said the FTC is an independent agency with commissioners from both parties and they unanim

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