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The thing about governments is that they can manifest their power in the form of people with guns showing up in places and forcing people to comply with them.
by lykr0n 8y ago
The thing about governments is that they can manifest their power in the form of people with guns showing up in places and forcing people to comply with them.
If Amazon refuses to give back someone's data; if they are a government entity they show up to the Datacenter and put a gun to someones head. If they are a private entity, the sue Amazon, win, and then get a court order which they can have the police enforce.
- longstaff2009 8y agoMaybe, but if the French government where to send the army into an American companies datacenter, would America stand by? Particularly if tech lobbyists had been contributing heavily to political campaign donations?
- rightbyte 8y agoFrance and the US has a military alliance. I think choosing side between Amazon and the french army would be easy decision in fawor of the side with the guns. If the value of Amazon in France is their customer list, then the government always will have more "customers" enlisted. The power of FANG is always one government decision away from being relativly zero to today. The opposit is hardly true except in really small or unstable states.