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Re:Facebook points finger at Google and Twitter for data col... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:49PM (#16854429)
> Scaling back all US companies will give a leg up to competitors in more lenient jurisdictions

Laws can be written to only apply to American users. That would leave American companies free to compete on level terms in other countries.

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Re:Facebook points finger at Google and Twitter for data col... by marcell on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:12PM (#16854560)
Sort of, the issue is companies typically bootstrap in their domestic market. If laws are restrictive it will kill companies before they even get to the point of international expansion.
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