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Under no circumstances should be US businesses treated as authorities. They are not mom nor should have any kind of leadership position.

• michaelt 1y ago
  On the other hand, the limited size of the British market limits Parliament’s ability to pressure foreign companies. China may be able to bully Apple into letting it snoop on its citizens’ icloud backups, but when the UK wants the same illiberal snooping powers, with 10% the population it’s 90% easier to walk away.
  • throwaway48476 1y ago
    Significantly less than 10%.
  • arlcode 1y ago
    It's quite ironic that they would have an easier time enforcing that if they were still part of the EU and could have been the deciding factor towards more regulation faster. The EU is big and rich enough to force Big Tech into submission under threat of loosing the market.
    • account42 1y ago
      Well, it's not ironic. That's one of the main reason why countries form coalition: to increase their collective bargaining power globally.
      • arlcode 1y ago
        The ironic part is that parts of the pro Brexit movement were convinced (from their messaging at least) that it worked the other way around.
• riazrizvi 1y ago
  No you’re right. Instead of a multi-billion dollar organization supporting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, serving directly their millions of customers, we would be better off running this with a team of Oxbridge literature and PPE alumni, armed with a hodgepodge of constituent letters accompanied by stiff emails by one or two members of parliament funded by god knows who, who otherwise have no skin in the game.
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  • watwut 1y ago
    Corporations have skin in a game - namely to keep their power, prevent competition from arising, make sure the workers are squeezed with less options so that they demand less salaries. Capitalism works when there is a competition between companies. Corporations are everything but that.