yes, and they also have the power to tell multinationals where they are allowed, geographically, to store the locals' data.
the grandparent has invented a fake problem (data regionalization, as though it cannot be addressed with regulation) and has conflated a nationalist-socialist desire to replace a foreign private enterprise with a nationalized public one. it's nationalist because it assumes that the nation needs to own it, and socialist because at the national level a public solution is proposed.
the solution, in turn, doesn't actually solve the regionalization problem unless the state organization running the nationalized ride share app is required through further legislation to keep the data local -- the same legislation that would be needed to regulate private entities, except now it's the government regulating itself since the public national ride share app is operated and owned by the government, and is now open to all the problems of corruption that plague every command economy.
But by all means, be more like North Korea, South Korea. Just nationalize everything. You don't want American influence. Those American monopolies and American dollars have really made you worse off in the last seventy years. /s
I have a problem with your comment. It's extremely condescending and emotionally charged.
Data sovereignty/regionalization is not a fake problem. Many governments around the world are trying to keep foreign companies from accessing their citizens data.
A sovereign country wants to create its industry by keeping foreign companies out isn't communism. Much of the West does this already and uses regulation/fines/antitrust lawsuits to keep em down.
Amusingly, U.S. Congress has been making a ruckus about this so-called “fake problem” lately (and I can’t fault them) even though TikTok already stores American data in Oracle Cloud on American soil.
the grandparent has invented a fake problem (data regionalization, as though it cannot be addressed with regulation) and has conflated a nationalist-socialist desire to replace a foreign private enterprise with a nationalized public one. it's nationalist because it assumes that the nation needs to own it, and socialist because at the national level a public solution is proposed.
the solution, in turn, doesn't actually solve the regionalization problem unless the state organization running the nationalized ride share app is required through further legislation to keep the data local -- the same legislation that would be needed to regulate private entities, except now it's the government regulating itself since the public national ride share app is operated and owned by the government, and is now open to all the problems of corruption that plague every command economy.
But by all means, be more like North Korea, South Korea. Just nationalize everything. You don't want American influence. Those American monopolies and American dollars have really made you worse off in the last seventy years. /s