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Re:EU Pushes Ahead with Big Tech Antitrust Enforcement by dmix on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:38PM (#43440533)
The only countries that do this in the world are China and Iran. Russia and India do it partially, such as rules for storing data domestically so they can snoop on it.

Apple has a company called GCBD running their iCloud so the Chinese gov can access it https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

Google, LinkedIn, Uber, etc left China. Meta refused to do a joint venture so never entered the market. The only big American names who did a joint venture were Apple and Tesl

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Re:EU Pushes Ahead with Big Tech Antitrust Enforcement by ashoeafoot on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:43PM (#43440609)
TikTok?
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Re:EU Pushes Ahead with Big Tech Antitrust Enforcement by dmix on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:53PM (#43440707)
There is no law in America requiring domestic joint ventures.

The Tiktok law gives the US gov power to ban social media companies controlled by a "U.S. foreign adversary" (only 6 countries) and offers the chance for divestment, but doesn't require moving operations to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

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