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by pixl97 844 days ago
"No" --Every company that does moderation and spam filtering.

"No" --Every company that does not publish their internal business processes.

"No" --Every company that does not publish their source code.

Honestly I could probably think of tons of other business cases like this, but in the software world outside of open source, the answer is pretty much no.

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Then we get back to square one: better no rules at all than secret rules.

This would also be less of a problem if we didn't have a few companies that are economically more powerful than many small countries running everything. At least then I could vote with my feet to go somewhere the rules aren't private.

I mean, now you're hitting the real argument. Giant multinationals are a scourge to humankind.