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Just like we banned Toyota and Honda when they started destroying GM and Ford's marketshare. Or like how we banned Samsung when they started competing with Apple. Or...


Let me continue that for you:

- or when you apply illegal tariffs n steel, cars and whatnot

- when you apply sanctions to a country respecting the commitments it signed

and so forth ...


These companies are from Japan and South Korea, and the companies don't really have access to data in the way a Google-like company has. This is more about security (surveillance, maybe even military security) than business.




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