[mmcdermott]

Confiscating ownership of 50% of a company seems like a pretty big line to cross. I don't think it's purely about political imaging. That would have all kinds of ripple effects, both in terms of the direct results of doing it and of the indirect results of setting the precedent.

[trasz]

Questioning pope’s infallibility used to be a pretty big line too, and now we know it was all just bluff; there was never a proper reason not to cross it.

To put it differently: the law must keep up with times. The law we have wasn’t designed for the business models we have today, from Facebook to Uber.