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Yes just like China whose apps are getting banned all around the world. US has more to lose though if Amazon, FB start getting banned because of extortion laws.

• gruez 6y ago
  >US has more to lose though if Amazon, FB start getting banned because of extortion laws. That's probably not going to be an issue unless US starts banning apps for no apparent reason (eg. forcing spotify to sell their American operations). For now the administration (regardless of their actual motives) can plausibly say that it was done in retaliation, which makes it look more acceptable to third parties.
  • nine_zeros 6y ago
    Banning might be fair. But extortion? Come on. That is mafia level. If you owned a coffee chain across the country and some counties police took extortion money to "protect" your assets or forced you to "sell" your operations to local goons, would any other business observing this ever open more businesses in those mafioso counties?
    • gruez 6y ago
      Clearly they would if there's money to be made, as we've seen in China.