Kick their asses by doing what? Issue a fine on the world's largest corporations? That sounds effective. Send them to prison? It'd never happen. Nationalize the tech industry? Please.
To deal with the two major google issues (China and the Subpoena for search records), how about Google (and Yahoo!, Cisco, and Microsoft for that matter) just relocate their corporation to China? They wouldn't have to censor American searches if they were operating out of China. Google would literally be able to look at the Bush administration and say "Okay, you don't want us to do what we want? See ya!"
China is the world's fastest-growing economy, and the largest potential market in all sectors. The CCP cares more about economic growth than it does about anything else (including Tibet, censorship, etc.), so if enormous multinational corporations decided "we hate the US federal government," China would give them a free ticket to do whatever they want.
Companies like Google are so much more powerful than the Department of Justice. If they start getting bullied around by a beligerent, arrogant presidency, they should stop saluting and start raising the middle finger.
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Kick their asses by doing what? Issue a fine on the world's largest corporations? That sounds effective. Send them to prison? It'd never happen. Nationalize the tech industry? Please.
To deal with the two major google issues (China and the Subpoena for search records), how about Google (and Yahoo!, Cisco, and Microsoft for that matter) just relocate their corporation to China? They wouldn't have to censor American searches if they were operating out of China. Google would literally be able to look at the Bush administration and say "Okay, you don't want us to do what we want? See ya!" China is the world's fastest-growing economy, and the largest potential market in all sectors. The CCP cares more about economic growth than it does about anything else (including Tibet, censorship, etc.), so if enormous multinational corporations decided "we hate the US federal government," China would give them a free ticket to do whatever they want. Companies like Google are so much more powerful than the Department of Justice. If they start getting bullied around by a beligerent, arrogant presidency, they should stop saluting and start raising the middle finger.