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by wonnage 2173 days ago
Huawei (a Chinese company) was paying Google a bunch of money in 2019 until they were banned by the government. You may argue that this was justified for national security reasons, but the decision was ultimately up to the whims of the president, and not subject to any sort of actual process or oversight by elected officials.
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What was Huawei paying Google for? If anything, Google was paying Huawei to be the default search engine on its phones outside of China.
Trump, like it or not, is an elected official and I doubt he understands very much about tech to make that decision on his own.