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Thankfully Google is not (yet?) a nation, so this analogy is facile to the point of absurdity.

It wields a heck of a lot more power than many countries on Earth. It's not that fatuous.

only it is economic power, contrary to the power of governments to apply any physical force necessary to make you comply with any rules it imposes on you.

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