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In addition: consider that “force” also relates to actions online. A government may be able to arrest employees of a company on its soil, but consider the conse
by randomsearch 8y ago
In addition: consider that “force” also relates to actions online. A government may be able to arrest employees of a company on its soil, but consider the consequences of Google turning off gmail/google access in the UK. Not parity, but that power is real and something governments should be worried about.
- Rooster61 8y agoI imagine more the reams and reams of data that Google (and the rest of FAANG) has stored on each and every citizen, including those elected to power. They could utterly destroy virtually anyone sitting in office politically with a few keystrokes.
- anpago 8y agoThat also goes the other way what does 5 Eyes have on those in FAANG?
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- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago> They could utterly destroy virtually anyone sitting in office politically with a few keystrokes. I don't think this is necessarily true. The Mayor of Toronto admitted to smoking cocaine, and after that regained his former seat on the city council. The blackmail attempt on Bezos just recently. Trump is president, despite the mountains of dirt on it. Bill and Hillary Clinton are still touring. I don't think the electorate cares if you're caught doing anything adults do, and low level corruption seems to be the norm in many developed democracies. What could any of the large data-whore companies possibly have on anyone that would utterly destroy?
- simonh 8y agoIt would harm google far more than it would harm any government. Google users in other countries would abandon them en mass for alternative services, in case the same thing happened to them. It doesn’t even matter much whose fault it was.