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It does SOMETHING. It paves the way to normalizing corruption from the highest level in America. This means businesses with US operations (US businesses as wel

It does SOMETHING. It paves the way to normalizing corruption from the highest level in America. This means businesses with US operations (US businesses as well as foreign businesses) will forever be aware of this corruption and try to curry favor with the highest levels. If they don't curry favor, they will find other ways or simply avoid the American market. This means America is now more like third world democracies than a real pioneer of freedom. Thus, the deal accomplished something that forever scars business in the US.

Pokepokalypse 6y ago
Like Joker said; "it's about sending a message."
leptons 6y ago
> That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else. [from the article] Trump is in every way no different than a 3rd world dictator. And this is just yet one more way.
- DudeInBasement 6y ago
  It's not Trump, it's presidential powers. Over time, the congress has 'delegated' more and more powers to the president making the US more and more a revolving dictatorship.
  - newen 6y ago
    Too true. In most other countries, no one office holds this much power.
modeless 6y ago
Exactly. It's a handout to Trump's buddy Larry Ellison, and it screws perceived political opponent Google by canceling a big existing cloud contract. Trump has to love everything about this deal. But that isn't the worst part. The worst part is that this screws the future of the open internet by establishing precedent for segregating everything by country. The US was probably the biggest force supporting a global network without borders. Now that's all hypocrisy. The future of the internet is clear, if it wasn't before: Great Firewalls around every country. It will be really bad for Silicon Valley as a whole and that's yet another reason for Trump to love this deal. He's building a wall on the internet too.

Pokepokalypse 6y ago

Like Joker said; "it's about sending a message."

leptons 6y ago

> That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else. [from the article] Trump is in every way no different than a 3rd world dictator. And this is just yet one more way.

DudeInBasement 6y ago
It's not Trump, it's presidential powers. Over time, the congress has 'delegated' more and more powers to the president making the US more and more a revolving dictatorship.
- newen 6y ago
  Too true. In most other countries, no one office holds this much power.

modeless 6y ago

Exactly. It's a handout to Trump's buddy Larry Ellison, and it screws perceived political opponent Google by canceling a big existing cloud contract. Trump has to love everything about this deal. But that isn't the worst part. The worst part is that this screws the future of the open internet by establishing precedent for segregating everything by country. The US was probably the biggest force supporting a global network without borders. Now that's all hypocrisy. The future of the internet is clear, if it wasn't before: Great Firewalls around every country. It will be really bad for Silicon Valley as a whole and that's yet another reason for Trump to love this deal. He's building a wall on the internet too.