Negotiation. Open with something ludicrous. Scale it back in exchange for concessions. Also known as bullying when round one is “end all end to end communica

Negotiation. Open with something ludicrous. Scale it back in exchange for concessions. Also known as bullying when round one is “end all end to end communications” but round two is “ok we’ll drop that if you pay more tax”. Taxing FAANG is the perennial government concern about big tech over which they slather the most. How can they get their hands on more profits! (At least, that’s the case outside the US, for the US corporations.)