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By the government of any country in which Google has a presence? Are you really fascinated by people desiring regulation? Are you confident that history has more examples of the harm of regulation than the harm of its absence?

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Government authority is not absolute: it must derive power from some law or other legal basis, which does not presently exist for "websites [which] break in competitor's browser". And if you are suggesting creating precedence for it, I ask you to carefully consider that responsibility in the hands of government bureaucrats, which are generally of low skill and intelligence, and are potent to abuse it.

>I ask you to carefully consider that responsibility in the hands of government bureaucrats, which are generally of low skill and intelligence,

Bro you have posted this on an article where GOOGLE fucked up PARSING A USER AGENT STRING to the point they deliver an empty HTML document. What feature on the Google search page even NEEDS such feature switching based on user agent? Google search worked pretty well on internet explorer 4 for heavens sake

But please, keep telling me how private sector is so much less incompetent than the public sector

Virtually yelling and calling me "bro" doesn't form an argument for government intervention, but it seems to help you vent, so have at it.

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