[liquidify]

The market is globally competitive. How would expect tech companies to compete if you have policies that continuously place them at a disadvantage against global competitors.

Tariffs don't solve these problems either. OP's suggestion is pretty decent idea relative to playing wack a mole with price fixing while trying to make sure your country's corps can compete on the global market.

[munificent]

> The market is globally competitive.

If national governments are going to allow companies to be trans-national, then we clearly need trans-national regulatory authorities. This isn't rocket science.

People act like corporations are immutable acts of divine intervention. They are an artifact we create and we are free as a society to change their parameters however we wish.

[rhizome]

It's not a free market, it has never been a free market, and this is just another part of a market that should also be regulated.

[modo_mario]

>How would expect tech companies to compete if you have policies that continuously place them at a disadvantage against global competitors.

We can look at a map of most popular messaging apps per country in the light of todays downtime and see that they don't or they compete with themselves.

It also shows the only places where competition can grow to a scale where it can even hope to start competing and survive is where there's first a protectionist policy in place favoring domestic players.