Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants
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#2The world is slowly learning from China.
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#3I found this article really frustrating.
The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?
These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat?
The author is amazingly willing to accord French bureaucrats the right to regulate the cultural consumption of Frenchmen. How is this defensible? Should we knock Netflix because it makes it harder for French social engineers to impose their preferences on their own citizens?
Companies like this don't come out of Europe for a reason.
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#4This is a bit overblown. Amazon doesn't have the retail sales of Walmart even in the US. Walmart has been able to dictate to manufactures rules for packaging and distribution for a couple decades now. Somehow we survived and now they are being disrupted. Europe may be "vulnerable" to US tech companies but it is not clear they will be as successful in China, India and other parts of the world.
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#5The reverse is also true. The U.S recently prevented Intel from selling $1 billion worth of chips to China [1], so China is getting to work developing their own supercomputing chips on their own tech.
[1].http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/05/us-supercomputer-chip-ban-d...
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#6I see four parties in play, but the author describes only two:
1. Foreign governments
2. American government
3. American companies
----Not mentioned in the article----
4. Foreign citizens
5. American citizens
Groups 3, 4, and 5 are more-or-less aligned.
Groups 1, 2, and 3 have more conflict than anything else.
Since American companies are doing an end-run around control, governments are frustrated. I'd never expect otherwise, and I wish the American companies all the luck.
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#7The world is slowly learning from China.
China is primarily blocking/censoring media companies. Other companies can work there freely. Apple is in China, Walmart is in China, Amazon is there, Uber is there and many, many western brands are making tons of money in the country.
In the article they mention that China ordered Apple to block/censor iTunes. Why? Because that's media content and media content is blocked/censored in China. Apple can still sell their phones and they do.
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#8I found this article really frustrating. The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame? These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat? The author is amazingly willing to accord French bureaucrats the right to regulate the cultural consumption of Frenchmen. How is this defensible? Should we knock Netflix because it…
The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?
We still, to this day, don't know the extent to which PRISM and BULLRUN participation was forced, voluntary, or completely opaque. We have Marissa Meyer claiming USG threatened charges of treason, and we have Google denying involvement full-stop.
I doubt if we'll ever know.
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#9The world is slowly learning from China.
Learning how to have slaves for population?
How noble of them. Not really.
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#10I found this article really frustrating. The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame? These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat? The author is amazingly willing to accord French bureaucrats the right to regulate the cultural consumption of Frenchmen. How is this defensible? Should we knock Netflix because it…
How is it not problematic when American tech form an oligopoly on internet services? Especially when these services need to bend to the whims of American government.