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HN libertarians: “This isn’t the right approach! You need government regulation!”

Everyone: so could I get some regulation on [literally any exploitative startup practice”

HN, creepy smiling face: “haha eat shit”

The reaction to GDPR, or the Cali privacy law, or the Uber employee classification, or literally any other regulation* shows how hollow those words are. When anyone tries to regulate these sorts of things you’ll shriek like a banshee about how unfair these regulations are.



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