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Banning the second largest user base in the country isn't usually a good business strategy

It's funny how regionalism pops up on the internet. Thing is, it's less than 10% of the country (and surely not all of those 29MM are on the internet), and there are other businesses surviving just fine foregoing a TAM of the whole country.

How can you be so sure it's not regionalism that's causing you to dismiss nearly 10% of one of the largest, richest countries in the world as inconsequential?

The top comment is from a legal expert basically saying that TPM's success in this lawsuit depends on avoiding Texas a jurisdiction, and the product in question is not possible without winning this lawsuit.

It's not that Texas is inconsequential. It's that the choice is "cut off Texas or risk the entire business in the other 49 states".

Oh, it absolutely is regionalism, in the form of "Texas is a corrupt legal shitshow and it can be a smart business move to refuse to do any business there."

And because HN only allows me like 3 comments a day, I'd like to emphasize "can."

Not all users are created equal. This is why many internet businesses cater exclusively to a wealthy country that contains only 6% (that is, excluding 94% of internet users) of the people on the internet.

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