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There should also be a ban on IP holding companies - that is the scheme where big company creates a parent company in a tax haven that holds IP and then subsidiaries pay "license fees" to effectively remove as much of taxable revenue as possible thus getting competitive advantage over companies who pay right amount of taxes and not using any "tricks". Collection of personal data should also be restricted to only serve the purpose of the product and for legal reasons. For example a company providing email service should be forbidden from selling analytics data to advertising companies or to fuel their own ad services.

I can also see that companies should be required to release schematics of the products and documentation for any file formats etc. they use, so that when you save a project from a given program you should be able to convert it to another format. Companies should also be prohibited from using AI as customer services.



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