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Originally Posted by sabredog
Agreed.
Our ancestors (parents and grand parents) fought a war 70 years ago to ensure the totalitarian actions that are proposed by such laws never became a reality.
It is a sad day indeed where a small group of corporations, who refuse to make any changes to their outdated business and distribution models, attempt to force the world at large to accept these said same business models.
The world has moved on and they have been left behind.
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A philosopher once said that man has governments to prevent men (and by extension, corporations of men) from grossly abusing each other, knowing that having a government was better than the abuses that would come from anarchy. A fantasy author once said that the world wars were fought to make the world safe enough so business could do just that, in a disapproving tone. Shortly thereafter, a sci-fi authoress said that governments had no business tampering with the economy, which can be interpreted such that the government can't be allowed to prevent any abuse.
The author and philosopher are largely forgotten today, while the authoress is still an inflencial figure in American economics. Anyone care to guess which ones I'm talking about?