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As a thought expreiment, what if Apple and Google quite simply did not comply? Could they really ignore an executive order? Could they sue the government and
by naringas 6y ago
As a thought expreiment, what if Apple and Google quite simply did not comply?
Could they really ignore an executive order? Could they sue the government and get some sort of injuction?
How could the government compel them? With fines? With a police raid?
- Taek 6y agoDisobeying a national security order from the federal government typically lands you in jail. Police raids and injunctions are both on the table.
- Nas808 6y agoCould these big tech firms challenge this in court? It seems like a very ambiguous use of "national security reasons".
- ngcc_hk 6y agoGoogle, FB should try in china. Fighting for the freedom of chinese app to be installed in USA land but theirs can’t. It does not fit the freedom for all concept I guess.
- coffeefirst 6y agoYes they can. And they may, but we don't know for sure whether they disagree or care to react at all. Given the administration tends to make decisions based more on xenophobia than empirical evidence and there's good reasons to think these apps have shady data practices, nothing about this situation is clear cut.
- SteveNuts 6y agoWho would go to jail in this scenario
- ponker 6y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/ubiome-suspends-clinical-operations-after-fbi-raid.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/ubiome-suspends-clinical-ope...
- ponker 6y agoThey can raid the offices, shut down the company’s access to the banking system, seize assets and funds, and arrest the top executives and throw them into what is effectively a torture chamber.
- thereare5lights 6y agoSo the saying the US would do the same thing China would do then?
- Dylan16807 6y agoWhat a low bar to trip over when it comes to freedom of commerce.
- xkcd-sucks 6y agoHonestly... for all the shitty aspects of the PRC, they do execute rich/well-connected people occasionally
- scarface74 6y agoWe just execute poor people who can only afford a piuoc defender....
- naringas 6y agobut rich people who break the law get house arrest and things like that
- Causality1 6y agoThis is not like Google doing business with, say, Adobe. The federal government has absolute authority over international transactions. Their options for enforcement are extensive. Not that it would, but if it came to it, they could shatter Google all the way to the foundation. Edit: For the galaxy-brains, me pointing out the government has the authority to do this is not an endorsement of them doing it.
- dzhiurgis 6y agoThey could enable side loading of apps easier. I won’t hold my breath.