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I kind of hate how the tenor of some of the comments in this thread has followed a template I see in a lot of discussions about Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft:
This company has a right to do X, therefore it was right to do X.
Also, Fallows is an excellent journalist with decades of experience--and a pilot's license he seems to put to regular use.