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"You want access to my market of a billion potential consumers? Do what I say!" Simple as that really. The government of Tuvalu making a similar request prob
by scottLobster 4y ago
"You want access to my market of a billion potential consumers? Do what I say!"
Simple as that really. The government of Tuvalu making a similar request probably would have been politely ignored.
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoI don't know how country domains work legally, but I imagine twitch.tv might be very quick to respond to a request from Tuvalu.
- N19PEDL2 4y agoThe bigger (and richer) the market, the stronger a country is in negotiations. All those politicians who would like their country to leave the European Union should be reminded of this.
- mc32 4y agoOne solution (not an ideal solution) might be where every entity that wants to serve the citizens of a sovereign country have to have a local company that serves the local population, a local subsidiary like in most brick and mortar industries. They may even require that all compute happen locally. And of course that all content and so on meet local regulations. Sort of like what we see with other telecommunication, be it T-mobile or other. Sure, they operate in many countries, but they have local staff and follow local rules.
- newswasboring 4y agoIndia is kind of moving towards this? Data security is a big discussion in whatever policy discussion is left in the country. I think legislation is in the works to mandate that all data related to indian citizens need to be in India and not leave it's virtual borders.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoCouldn't New Delhi just tell Youtube HQ to obey worldwide and enforce it on all their subsidiaries, or lose the market? In that case it wouldn't matter how many intermediary entities are there between HQ and local operations.
- mc32 4y agoYah right now they could take that stand. In the future I can imagine an international governing body that would set rules around these things.
- whimsicalism 4y agoSeems like if you can just will an international governing body into existence, there isn't even any need for subsidiary cloak-and-dagger.
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- karmakaze 4y agoWhat if Alphabet calls the bluff and stops serving all of their services in the market. The population would know why which wouldn't be a good look for leaders. Google is too invested in $earch to call a bluff though.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoGoogle has competitors in the search space so it's understandable why they're afraid of calling bluffs. And from what I understand Youtube isn't profitable by itself.
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- Retric 4y agoWhy do you think it’s unprofitable? Last estimate I looked at showed YouTube as being wildly profitable.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoCan you link to the estimate?
- blululu 4y agoMainland China already does this. The extent to which this is a real solution are pretty dubious. When the local rules are reasonable and local everything is fine, but a large enough country the government can start trying to use its weight to encroach on the severity of other countries and push across whatever fence the company has set up.