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I really wish US companies would take a more forceful approach with these rogue governments. “You get off our back or we pull out of your countries”
by glerk 7y ago
I really wish US companies would take a more forceful approach with these rogue governments. “You get off our back or we pull out of your countries”
- icebraining 7y agoLooking at the list, and as a citizen of an European country: yes, please, do pull out.
- levosmetalo 7y agoI would be happy if those spy organisations like Google and Facebook would leave my country.
- magduf 7y agoGoogle provides some genuinely useful services, like Maps. Facebook, on the other hand, isn't something that anyone really needs. What value does Facebook actually provide anyway, besides giving people a forum to post boring family photos for grandma to look at? I guess Facebook Marketplace can be sorta useful for selling your old junk, but that's the only thing that comes to mind. Remember also that there's only two players in the smartphone market: Apple and Google (which makes the software and app store behind Android). If you loose Google and Android, that means everyone's going to be sorta forced into buying an iPhone unless they want to go back to flip-phones. Do you really want an Apple monopoly in your country?
- buboard 7y agoFacebook provides the great service of keeping them all over there. Imagine if all that crowd descended on HN.
- magduf 7y agoDon't be silly. Even if FB disappeared tomorrow, "that crowd" isn't going to come to HN, just like they're not going to suddenly develop an interest in, say, electronics and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about how to design PCBs, or an interest in, say, astrophysics, and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about gravity wave detection. No matter what happens to FB, you're safe here.
- atonse 7y agoAs an American whose taxes are heavily subsidizing these companies, I too hope that they pull out and are taught a lesson in paying taxes.
- rad_gruchalski 7y agoBye.
- dang 7y agoWe've asked you before not to post unsubstantive comments here. We ban accounts that keep doing this, so would you please stop? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- chillacy 7y agoSounds like a great recipe to end US tech dominance and tank the market cap of global companies.
- effie 7y ago"Rogue governments"? The governments do not derive their power from U.S. or from tech companies. Regarding pulling out, that is always a possibility, but very unlikely one, even if the taxation was higher than what France demands.