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Microsoft is not the police or courts.


It was the court that allowed Microsoft to do this.


the court deciding that a company (Microsoft) should act as the police (or in this analogy, a bouncer) is still terribly short-sighted, especially when that company has been historically accused by the DOJ of attempting to form varying monopolies.

a capable government should not be in the habit of contracting valuable state-needed cyber-defense to private companys, as the 'keys to the kingdom', in this case domain records, should not be in the hands of a company that can benefit privately but rather a state-ran agency which employs proper check and balances.


A court appointed a private corporation to act as a police agency.




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