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someonelse17

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    Comment #18096587

    They're not held legally accountable for political views. The copyright stuff applies to everyone already.

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    Comment #18096171

    It's debatable if the China thing applies, in any case congressional committees need not interfere.

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    Comment #18096115

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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    Comment #18095810

    I'm not talking about Silicon Valley, I'm talking about all other industries in all countries, most Silicon Valley companies are banned in China, stop vilifying Silicon Valley. I'm…

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    Comment #18095704

    I don't see a unique human rights angel here, there are many companies doing business with China and a number of other "iffy" governments, if congress was truly alarmed by that the…

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    Comment #18095612

    What you want and what the law allows are different things, also just don't let any entity control how you think. As for 'being held accountable' as publisher, I'm sure you're awar…

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    Comment #18095230

    I don't know about the prevalence of other opinions but what I'm suggesting (and there are many legal precedents to support this) is that the first amendment shields them from this…

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    Comment #18095140

    I'm not sure what's behind the recent prevalence to this theory but that is false. Also we should all want section 230 protection it's what preserves free speech online and the pri…

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    Comment #18095051

    The politics of private citizens are their own business and explicitly not the government's. Furthermore even if that had any bearing on their search results whatever google presen…

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    Comment #18094982

    Convening a hearing on a specific subject (silly as it as in this case) then making it an open season for all other grievances is another despicable aspect of these hearings.

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    Comment #18094925

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    Comment #18071310

    Define "getting cozy" in this context and please explain why a public hearing is in any way better than a private one or even just exchanging correspondence.

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    Comment #18071258

    If it was truly about policy they would have accepted the lawyer, it's theatrics and grandstanding and campaigning from that dais.

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    Comment #18071247

    I don't think it was warranted in that case either, it was an exicise in public humiliation, a bunch of people who never created anything getting off on talking down to someone muc…

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    Comment #18070443

    Unless it's illegal it's none of their business.

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    Comment #18069852

    Google offered their top lawyer for the senate hearing but they rejected him, I guessing it's because they needed CEOs in order to maximize the pleasure from their exercise in publ…

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    Comment #18041173

    I also would like to have my cake and eat it.

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    Comment #18041062

    Leak what? It says so in the permission screen when a user chooses to grant access.

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    Comment #18016356

    Why? does Jeff Session not like the weed reference? There is no call for a criminal probe her.