> They shouldn't, the accountability should come with regulation ensuring fair competition and respect for user data, not just going ahead and reducing competit

> They shouldn't, the accountability should come with regulation ensuring fair competition and respect for user data, not just going ahead and reducing competitiveness of US companies by breaking them up. Nothing about Google even approaches fair competition. It's impossible due to network effects. "Respect for user data" sounds great in theory, but ends up being a cudgel to reduce the ability of a startup to compete while shouldering high compliance costs. > I will be really surprised if Google sold their R&D to China, as it makes no sense whatsoever, but my comment was in general about all US big tech companies. They don't get a say in the matter, because they have an R&D facility within China's jurisdiction. China's national security laws compel full cooperation in security and intelligence matters, I'll add that what counts as "security" and "intelligence" has a very expansive legal definition as compared to for example in the US. This law has no process of appeal nor any sort of judicial review.