That's not necessarily the case. The private sector provides news coverage, yet it is frequently of a poor and (inherently) biased nature, especially in parts of the world that are enamoured with deregulation: e.g. Fox News et al since the 'Fairness' legislation in the US was removed. The BBC is generally recognised the world's most reliable, accurate and wide-ranging broadcaster, and it is, of course, a public sector corporation.
To those comparing Boeing and Airbus and bemoaning the European government support for some enterprises, it should be noted that many US firms are living off enormous state subsidies, especially the arms industry (military-industrial complex, bla bla, you know the rest). 'Free enterprise' is often mere rhetoric.
A provocateur might also point to the following Mussolini quote, which is arguably applicable in some senses to both France and the US (though moreso the US): 'Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power'.
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It's not murky, it's illegal. You are only allowed to make those copies for personal use, selling one and retaining another is also piracy.
This rightly, and certainly not for the first time, brings up questions of Google's power and influence.
The London Review of Books has a fascinating discussion of this 'Global Id', that probably merits its own slashdot thread.
That's not necessarily the case. The private sector provides news coverage, yet it is frequently of a poor and (inherently) biased nature, especially in parts of the world that are enamoured with deregulation: e.g. Fox News et al since the 'Fairness' legislation in the US was removed. The BBC is generally recognised the world's most reliable, accurate and wide-ranging broadcaster, and it is, of course, a public sector corporation.
To those comparing Boeing and Airbus and bemoaning the European government support for some enterprises, it should be noted that many US firms are living off enormous state subsidies, especially the arms industry (military-industrial complex, bla bla, you know the rest). 'Free enterprise' is often mere rhetoric.
A provocateur might also point to the following Mussolini quote, which is arguably applicable in some senses to both France and the US (though moreso the US): 'Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power'.