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By leaving a market of 1.4 billion people?

If maximum money is your only worth then your company has no standards - and therefore is untrustable to make good decisions towards consumers. Which explains google and apple pretty well.

Unfortunately all large tech companies are public and it does in fact seem that this is really all that shareholders care about.

We have no reason to believe that they will do anything other than attempt to maximize their share value.

It’s not just about maximizing share value - it’s a prisoners dilemma.

If one company declines to do business, someone else will do it, and may end up with market power.

We can’t solve this problem by expecting individual companies to sacrifice themselves.

Even if they did, it wouldn’t solve the problem because it would open the door to even worse companies taking their position.

The only solution is at the political level.

If we give in to every demand of the Chinese government, things continue as they are. Those 1.4 billion people, hopefully, would demand the products being offered and policies would be (slowly) forced to change.

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