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> if the choice is between Google controlling access to the internet and Chinese-style regulation

You're committing the fallacy of the excluded middle. There is a massive gulf between unregulated behavior of publicly-held companies and authoritarian dictatorship by an unelected body, and the USA is somewhere there in the middle.



I think this is more along the lines of false dilemma, no?

oh I see this is an alias for that. false dilemma, false dichotomy and excluded middle are apparently all the same thing.


They are certainly not


> They are certainly not

So what's your understanding of those terms? Mine is identical to that of treehau5.


Ok, wikipedia lied to me then, or I misread. Sorry.




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