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cishet-camel-fucker t1_j1b2f07 wrote

Reply to comment by StillAnAss in Urgent warning millions of Netflix users 'could be committing a crime' by [deleted]

I don't think it's Netflix doing it, just the UK government. It's like some kind of bizarre taxpayer-funded white knighting.

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aoechamp t1_j1bv23n wrote

Bizarre? The US and UK are always white knighting businesses. They start wars for businesses. Nicaragua, Iran, India, etc it’s pretty much what they do.

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cishet-camel-fucker t1_j1bzl54 wrote

Bizarre because usually a business will demand something before the government does that thing.

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Levainathan t1_j1byy4c wrote

Any sources on those?

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aoechamp t1_j1c0ltq wrote

It’s basic history that can be found in any western textbook.

Nicaragua = bananas India = black pepper Iran = oil

There are many other examples, but these wars were fought at the behest of private companies.

In Iran, the British hired the CIA to organize a coup and depose the then Prime Minister of Iran because of his plan to nationalize the oil industry. Which would have affected the British oil company that had an ill-gotten monopoly at the time. This might help you get started on the Iran case: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40209809

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