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Are you serious? Facebook and Twitter are huge forces worldwide. There's a reason countries like Iran and China have blocked them. (And this just in: Iran has u

• mkr-hn 13y ago
  > Are you serious? You must have missed this: > Maybe it's easier to think of more if you're in SV and not on the other side of the continent. I didn't know those were SV companies. They're household names because of their impact, not their location. People don't tend to associate them with the location of the company's headquarters. > There's a reason countries like Iran and China have blocked them. (And this just in: Iran has unblocked FB and Twitter as of this week.) You missed this too: > only one of those three with projects outside SV I was thinking of Google Fiber and Google's lobbying to make driverless cars legal in as many states as possible. Projects. "Getting banned in China" isn't a project. It's almost as if you ignored the content of my comment. And today I learned that Menlo Park (Facebook) and Cupertino (Apple) are in California. I imagine this is what it's like when someone learns there's more to Atlanta than the airport.