[Gllug] security check

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Andy Millar wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:15 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > The trouble is that there is too great an imbalance of power between Joe Public
> > and the large corporations. This is why I wrote the comment below a few days ago:
> > 
> > 	http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1330699&cid=29008677
> 
> Why should independent private companies be regulated like that?

To redress the power balance.

> Surely if you don't like how a company (or all the companies in the
> current market) are doing something you should create a competitor
> yourself providing the service or services in a way that is more
> beneficial to you?

As I said in my post on /. - creating a competitor is not always easy.
Note also that I say that it should be ''fair to both parties''.

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