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Just like we banned Toyota and Honda when they started destroying GM and Ford's marketshare. Or like how we banned Samsung when they started competing with Appl

• chvid 8y ago
  These companies are from Japan and South Korea, and the companies don't really have access to data in the way a Google-like company has. This is more about security (surveillance, maybe even military security) than business.
• nrow 8y ago
  That isn't how these things work, not even in China. You don't just ban companies. You create an environment were public opinion, the legal framework and government investment favors your own companies. The Toyota "braking scandal", Apple litigation against Samsung, automotive bailouts and trade tariffs are all part of that.
• gonvaled 8y ago
  Let me continue that for you: - or when you apply illegal tariffs n steel, cars and whatnot - when you apply sanctions to a country respecting the commitments it signed and so forth ...