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		gfawke5 on Dec 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world needs more search engines > “What has Google ever done for us?”. They have done an awful lot for society, for the web and probably saved it a few times a long time ago. But it is time to also see them as the empire they have become. And empires must fall.

shadowgovt on Dec 1, 2019 [–]

They were definitely involved in several precedent setting legal decisions, such as the settlement that allowed for scanning of printed works.

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