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Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there(www.businessinsider.com)

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Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

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query@lemmy.world
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Not doing business in a country that is not your own is the easiest thing anyone can do.

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Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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a country that is not your own

Well, the already own the US (or at least most of the congress); why not try and expand?

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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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but then how can the line go up??

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