[lovich]

The Italian market doesn’t have to apply to Google USA either.

Companies can always choose to ignore a specific nation’s laws[1], they don’t still get access to that nations markets. At the borders the nation state is the one with the guns and firewalls

[1] unless you piss off a nation that can project global power, lol if you piss off China or America

[justinclift]

First time I've heard of China projecting "global power". Are there cases of it happening?

[lovich]

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1714248/more-chinese....

Chinese and American police forces both operate abroad and like to flex their power. The NYPD was in a similar situation post 9/11 when they started trying to police nearby states and when they sent operatives to other countries even against their own federal government [1].

Russias also sent operatives overseas in some fairly public assassinations. It’s not really surprising that China does this, it appears to be the default operating procedure of powerful countries

[1] http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stre...

[hef19898]

All over Africa, in a more heo political sense. Also along the new silk road all the way to Europe. Just to name two.

[psychoslave]

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-the-arctic

https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-presence-in-africa-is...

https://www.cadtm.org/Chinese-geopolitics-continuities-infle...

[dmitriid]

Apple complying with Chinese laws, and providing Chinese government access to private data.

Google, Facebook etc. being blocked in China.

etc.