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Because Google has set things be up so that they have no legal responsibility & even if they do it's an enormous legal mountain to climb to a) prove it and b) get any kind of reasonable recompense out of them.

Currently they have all the benefits of their monopoly with none of the responsibility which is exactly the way they like it.



Go figure why nobody keeps them accountable.

They have enough money to influence the USA government if anything changing the situation were to be introduced.


They're a frequent target of rhetoric and legislation by the republicans. Granted, nothing comes of it because the fundamental issue they have is that reality has a liberal bias.


The actual issue is that reality has a bias towards people with deep pockets.




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