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Part of the monopoly advantage means that they can covertly punish drivers who choose to use competitors' apps by sending them fewer rides.

America did not intervene militarily in Syria (covertly, perhaps, but not militarily) yet Syria managed to fall apart.

By breaking SHA1 you could covertly edit older commits, but existing contributors would still have the original version.

Shouldn't be hard to rent a few places (or just covertly drop off equipment) and monitor tons of offices.

When Google works against its own partners covertly, what would a reasonable person call it?

They will just covertly sell full documentation to some Chinese company that will manufacture it in huge quantities for Asian markets at first.

The government can gather your information covertly, can obtain data from multiple companies using legal means unavailable to corporations, and typically do so with the goal of charging one with a crime.

> Part of the monopoly advantage means that they can covertly punish drivers who choose to use competitors' apps by sending them fewer rides.

But civil noncompliance (covertly democratic) is about bypassing politics entirely, forcing authorities to either punish the community at large or acknowledge the impotence of the law in question.

Simply killing criminals covertly wouldn't accomplish his goals.

Non-aligned countries, Russia and China, and neighbouring countries, all continue to trade with Iran, whether officially or not, legally or covertly.

Here's another paper by the same author arguing that people who believe wrong things should be covertly manipulated by government agents to induce them to not believe wrong things.

"works against its own partners covertly" it a bit presumptuous as well - certainly implies malice and intent.

> covertly interfere with radical websites What are the grounds to be considered a "radical website"?

"Over my shoulder" surveillance is very hard to achieve covertly and consistently and is much easier to detect than digital surveillance.