> this unwillingness to play ball may just result in the companies fleeing to other countries rather than other states If they could they will do it. But it is

> this unwillingness to play ball may just result in the companies fleeing to other countries rather than other states If they could they will do it. But it is not possible as you need data locality. If your data center is in China, it cannot compete in speed with a local data center. And this is true in different ways for a lot of businesses. That is one of the many reasons why all business are not already in India even that everything is way cheaper there. And how a small company can compete with this kind of deals? Google is already having a scale advantage add to that tax breaks and it's impossible to compete with them. These tax breaks have a very bad impact on any capitalist economy.