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I applaud them for fighting this in some way but at the end of the day they'll probably comply somehow. The curious mind in me would like to see a parallel uni
by kriro 12y ago
I applaud them for fighting this in some way but at the end of the day they'll probably comply somehow.
The curious mind in me would like to see a parallel universe in which a major company responds to these threads by leaving the US entirely (or threatening to do so) and then running an anti agency here campaign for years to spite them.
Or maybe a big enough company that takes them heads on and crushes them...well I guess I've been reading too much dystopia fiction recently and am curious how the megacorps > governments scenario would actually be kickstarted.
[the situation is too sad for me to think about it in realistic terms, sorry for the minor derail]
- allegory 12y agoThe company I worked for a few years ago (I'm not going to disclose who as I'll get shot) were an EU based insurance org and had a US subsidiary that they used for selling overseas. They had a 5 man legal team to keep the US govt off their backs. In the end they said "fuck it" and closed US operations down one afternoon with no noticed, cancelled everyone's policies and fired everyone (gave them 4 months pay at the same time). Everyone was told why including the investors. Not a major company (<$50M capital) but it stirred the pot big time in a particular sector of the insurance industry and pissed off a number of large investors in the US.