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by ginko 662 days ago
Yes we are upset about American companies breaking the law and using unfair market advantage to get ahead. It's certainly not a win-win. The fines are a drop in the bucket.
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Here you are on the internet which America invented, on an American website, complaining about how America is unfair, while they pay you billons of dollars in fines.
> Here you are on the internet which America invented

Oef, another poorly researched, oversimplified take on things. I'll throw you a bit of a bone, the prototype internet or the precursor to it is indeed mostly a US invention. The modern day internet has been shaped by many international contributions from a variety of sources. Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist to give an obvious example. Not to mention that it is very likely you are viewing this on a wifi connected device, which is a Dutch invention.

I didn't say that America "shaped" the internet, I said that America invented it, which is a fact that you've admitted.
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