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>US firms lose contracts and relationships sour. This meme is not based on facts. American companies dominate the internet space even more now than they did be
by bananacurve 13y ago
>US firms lose contracts and relationships sour.
This meme is not based on facts. American companies dominate the internet space even more now than they did before Snowden. Anti-Americanism is great but you need other companies to replace their services.
- rhizome 13y agoThat isn't "Anti-Americanism." Have some perspective.
- jcrites 13y ago> American companies dominate the internet space even more now than they did before Snowden I am sure that is true in many countries, but it is not true in all of them, e.g. China. China has its own tech giants and market leaders. > US firms lose contracts and relationships sour. It will be difficult to find hard data on the topic. Perhaps we could look at the market as a whole: overall international sales across a set of US tech companies over time. Personal anecdotes (from people doing business internationally) lead me to believe there is a chilling effect or loss of trust for US firms - of what magnitude I am not sure. Perhaps the real business impact is not that significant, and it's just getting a lot of press. I hope my comments do not come across as Anti-American. That is certainly not the tone I'm looking to set. I am solely looking to have a constructive discussion.
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- CamperBob2 13y agoThe types of changes that the Snowden documents will prompt other countries' governments and corporations to make do not happen overnight. This is a game of strategy, not tactics.