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> Google has a lot of influence in what people see and read.

Google only has as much influence as individual users of their services give it.

And a lot of people give Google that power.

Which means Google holds a lot of soft power in the eyes of the government.

But the government can't "fix" that by regulating. Governments trying to regulate things to shield people from the consequences of their own bad decisions doesn't work.

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