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Governments can do that right now too. EU is trying to do that right now with Qwant.com where European Investment Bank invested €25 million.

So, I'm curious will you start using Qwant.com from now on?

https://www.qwant.com/

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How are my personal decisions relevant? I'm calling for a government appropriation of the search division of Google.

If you say you want it government run after stealing it (lets not mince words here) and aren't using a government run one right now kind of undermines the sincerity of your arguments.

> aren't using a government run one right now kind of undermines the sincerity of your arguments.

First I never said I'm not. Either way it is pretty irrelevant to the discussion.

If, in fact, I am not using a government run one right now, maybe it is precisely because the government hasn't yet stolen Google's? If the government already had something as good as Google, clearly there would be no point in them stealing Google's, would there?

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