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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by EthanHeilman on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:13PM (#5864056)
I think it will cause a deinternationalization of the technology industry since each government will want it's citizens to use local tech (if you think governments can't force this look at S. Korea and IE). US companies are some of the most international, so this will hurt US companies the most and it will reduce the margins of all the big players across the board (that is, short GOOG).
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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by cinquemb on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:39PM (#5864223)
Maybe corporations could go off the coast of nation states[0]… not that they will beyond the influence of them, but states may have no legal authority over them under those circumstances so they may have more freedom to be more transparent to the public because of their interests to their bottom lines.

[0]: http://www.seasteading.org/about/

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by freyr on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:39PM (#5864225)
Without government intervention, I don't think this news will disrupt the habits of typical consumers. They'll continue using whatever is easy or the most popular.

Corporations that have a vested interest in providing security (or the illusion thereof) may reconsider cloud-hosted solutions. But that's probably a relatively small market.

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