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Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica by chillacy on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:58PM (#22528515)
The US almost certainly would, at least it did most recently when France wanted to put a digital tax: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078574/france-us-digita...

A consumption tax is a pretty good way to tax foreign companies though imo, as long as your domestic market is desirable.

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Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica by bilbo0s on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:45PM (#22529000)
>The US almost certainly would

What happened with China?

I know FB isn't really operating in China. (At least no one I knew in Ningbo had it?) So did we sanction China for that or how did that all work? Because, and I don't know if we did or didn't, but if we didn't sanction China, why sanction Australia? Was that situation different somehow? (Other than just "China's richer").

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Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica by lapnitnelav on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:01PM (#22528547)
If enough countries start doing that, maybe the balance of power might be different. Especially in the West.
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