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I'd like to see a company like Samsung say "okay, we won't sell our phones in California." In an increasingly integrated world I think it's bad that a single s

I'd like to see a company like Samsung say "okay, we won't sell our phones in California." In an increasingly integrated world I think it's bad that a single state has the power to change an industry impacting people who are not its citizens. New York State pulls the same sort of thing too.

justizin 12y ago
On the other hand, a number of things that people outside of NY and CA refused to fight for on their own, they have for free because of states like this. If you go on the far end of the spectrum from electronics to schoolbooks, you find that there are only two customers for history: California and Texas. You can have the California hippie flavor or the racist civil rights denying Texas version. Since Apple already provides a feature which complies, I don't see how this is a real threat to the industry.
- privong 12y ago
  > If you go on the far end of the spectrum from electronics to schoolbooks, you find that there are only two customers for history: California and Texas. Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks.
  - justizin 12y ago
    "Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks." Do they, though? Maybe under mineral sciences and alternatives to evolution. ;) < Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Texas >
    - pessimizer 12y ago
      http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/education/texas-education-board-flags-biology-textbook-over-evolution-concerns.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/education/texas-education-...
  - morgante 12y ago
    > Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks. Yup. There are the Texas (Republican) versions which are skeptical of evolution, and the California (sane) versions.
gress 12y ago
I'd love to see Samsung say that too. I think it would be disastrous for Samsung. Why should corporations have all the power, and voters have none?
- golemotron 12y ago
  It's not really any more power than they should have. If you're in business it should be fine for you to say where you will and won't sell your stuff.

justizin 12y ago

On the other hand, a number of things that people outside of NY and CA refused to fight for on their own, they have for free because of states like this. If you go on the far end of the spectrum from electronics to schoolbooks, you find that there are only two customers for history: California and Texas. You can have the California hippie flavor or the racist civil rights denying Texas version. Since Apple already provides a feature which complies, I don't see how this is a real threat to the industry.

privong 12y ago
> If you go on the far end of the spectrum from electronics to schoolbooks, you find that there are only two customers for history: California and Texas. Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks.
- justizin 12y ago
  "Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks." Do they, though? Maybe under mineral sciences and alternatives to evolution. ;) < Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Texas >
  - pessimizer 12y ago
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/education/texas-education-board-flags-biology-textbook-over-evolution-concerns.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/education/texas-education-...
- morgante 12y ago
  > Purportedly, Texas also has a significant influence on what goes into science textbooks. Yup. There are the Texas (Republican) versions which are skeptical of evolution, and the California (sane) versions.

gress 12y ago

I'd love to see Samsung say that too. I think it would be disastrous for Samsung. Why should corporations have all the power, and voters have none?

golemotron 12y ago
It's not really any more power than they should have. If you're in business it should be fine for you to say where you will and won't sell your stuff.