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Spanish Court Orders Google To Delete App Used For Catalan Independence Vote (reuters.com)
From a report: Catalonia's High Court on Friday ordered Google to delete an application that it said Catalan separatists were using to spread information about a disputed independence vote this Sunday. The court said the "On Votar 1-Oct" application on the Google Play smartphone app store opposed an order in September from Spain's Constitutional Court to suspend the referendum while it determined its legality. The court also ordered Google to block any future applications developed by the gmail address "Onvotar1oct@gmail.com', according to a written ruling. Nobody at Google in Spain was immediately available to comment.
Or maybe the US-centric news site, Slashdot, just doesn't pay attention to European startups as much? Notice, too, that this particular court action was about essentially a US based company. In other words, it may affect the US, too. Same with how Apple was buying a company; didn't make the news until Apple came into play. ;)
The App was done after the government closed more than a 100 mirrors of the website.
They think of IBM as an American company, but T-Mobile as a 'global' one.
T-Mobile is a publicly traded American company. They are headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Deutsche Telekom is the majority shareholder, but that doesn't make it a German company. I'm not disagreeing with your point, but your example is pretty poor.