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    Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, says the DOJ is pushing “a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.”

    I’m honestly curious how this would “harm Americans”.

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        Everyone really does need to have that at the forefront of their mind. When the C-suit, wall street, and politicians talk about “Americans” they aren’t talking about us schlubs.

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      Google pretending they have any other nationality other then “the global internet” is cute in a disgusting way.

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      …a radical interventionist agenda…

      That language seems very “Trump-esque”, and I doubt it is a coincidence.