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> The only "public utility type services" Google provides is phone service

I guess my implicit suggestion that email services be regarded as a type of public utility was a bit convoluted. But gmail is surely a close enough parallel to postal services of old (traditionally a public utility) to be regarded as such. Legislation has simply not caught up with technological developments.



It's not. Email is decentralized, anyone can run a server, and there are no email monopolies.




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