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by webmobdev 2184 days ago
> If Pix is better, people will choose Pix, if WhatsApp is better, people will use it.

Yes, let Facebook and Apple invent their own internet too, with no compatibility between them. Let's also allow Ford / GM to create their own roads exclusively for Ford / GM vehicles. /s

This is not businesses we are talking about, it's public infrastructure. And banking is a public infrastructure.
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stickfigure 2184 days ago
Have a little faith? Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, and a raft of others tried to make "their own internet" in the 80s/90s and the open system won out.
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webmobdev 2181 days ago
> Have a little faith?

No, thank you. I am from India, a country that lost its independence and was ruled and looted as a colony by a corporate called the East India Company. I have no faith in or trust in corporates.

In a healthy democracy, Government regulations and standards are a MUST to protect us from the greed of the corporates, and to create a level playing field.

Facebook is an american company and I applaud the wisdom of the Brazil policy makers to make it abide by their country's rules.

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