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To: NobleFree
Crony capitalism "allows for preferential regulation and other favorable government intervention based on personal relationships." (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/crony-capitalism.html) Google's being required to modify its product in order to do business in China is the opposite of preferential.

You twist and you turn, you take partial definitions and you ignore full concepts.

Do a search on "crony capitalism" and "symbiotic relationship between big business and big government". You know what "symbiotic" means, right? I even used the word up thread and you ignored it.

Crony Capitalism isn't about "personal", close emotional relationships. It's "laughable" if you think that it is. It's about symbiotic relationships.

Google creates a tyrannical search engine for China and China reciprocates by giving Google the business (or a "preference" if you insist).

But even if we suppose that Google's knuckling under to China somehow makes their future Chinese earnings not theirs or not private, it doesn't pass the laugh test to conclude as you seem to that their current servers are not their property to allow use of or not as they choose.

I said theoretically. Big Government and Big Business symbiotically using their monopolistic powers to control the free flow of information, gain profit, and accumulate property is the antithesis of free market gained, real private property.

146 posted on 06/07/2019 9:00:20 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Big Government and Big Business symbiotically using their monopolistic powers to control the free flow of information, gain profit, and accumulate property is the antithesis of free market gained, real private property.

When Big Business gets Big Government to squeeze out competition (existing or future), that weakens its ethical claims to its accumulation, agreed. It's a long, long leap from that to government A dictating the use of said accumulation based on actions regarding government B; that's a Pandora's box not all of whose contents we may like.

147 posted on 06/07/2019 9:37:27 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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