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Google has a monopoly on search. Their market share is 94%.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/as-the-antitrust-case-against-goo...

As a monopolist, they need to meet much higher standards of accountability, transparency, and fairness.

Would we tolerate it if the electric monopoly cut off power to the Daily Mail? Or the water monopoly?

When you're not a monopoly, you don't have to care about any of these things. You're in it to win it.

As a society, we cannot have a monopoly willy nilly censoring sites with no accountability or means of redress. It is an intolerable situation. A monopoly must be demonstrably fair to everyone.




> Would we tolerate it if the electric monopoly cut off power to the Daily Mail?

I think most of us would encourage it. The paper and it's online counterpart are a detriment to society...

But I get your broader point.




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