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No, it's like missed payment, missed taxes and then being told to pay up. When a company promises to invest money in a country it's not from the bottom of their
by crossroadsguy 2y ago
No, it's like missed payment, missed taxes and then being told to pay up. When a company promises to invest money in a country it's not from the bottom of their charitable hearts. It's because they get tons of benefits, preferences, cuts for that. If you don't invest after that you basically are going for a free ride. In fact this looks like least of a shake-down. Shake down was what was done in Brazil to X (and I actually loved that shakedown - that's a different story), shakedown is what India did to TikTok (again, it was needed), what US did to Huawei (and rightly so) etc.
Also you have generously not included parts of the article that clarifies things.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoI think they meant Apple is doing the shake-down.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoThere's a huge difference between prohibiting the import and sale of a product (much more reasonable) and prohibiting the ownership and use of a product (much less reasonable).
- FabHK 2y agoI’d think that importing and using for example an aviation band transceiver is regulated in most countries, and prohibited unless both the device and the user fulfil certain requirements. As such, prohibiting the ownership and use of a device is nothing extraordinary.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoThat's an entirely different case, and absolutely an extraordinary one. The prohibited thing there is transmitting on an aviation band without fulfilling the requirements to do so; that prohibition would apply just as much whether you hand-built a transmitter yourself, or bought a domestically produced one, or imported one.