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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by sk5t on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:41PM (#26038948)
Just as we have laws that prevent US organizations from giving or taking bribes even in countries where bribes are legal (FCPA), and US laws prevent US individuals from overseas sex tourism which would be illegal on US soil, what prevents us from requiring US organizations not to participate in religious oppression, child exploitation, and other such acts?
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by zepto on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:13PM (#26039377)
Nothing. That would be a good way to solve this problem.
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by yibg on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:55PM (#26042278)
Would this not just lead to a fragmentation of whatever industry? e.g. if google / apple can't legally do business in Pakistan or some other countries because of these laws, presumably someone like China will step in and provided the missing products or services. Not that this is necessarily a bad situation ethnically anyways, but there are consequences.
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by mcguire on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:15PM (#26041304)
You would further have to require US organizations not to do business with other organizations that participate in oppression, etc., transitively. And have to have a way to enforce that.
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