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Competition is a funny thing—it doesn't just apply to companies competing for customers, it also applies to governments competing for companies to make products available to their citizens. Turns out that if you make compliance with your laws onerous enough they can actually just choose to opt out of your country altogether, or at a minimum delay release in your country until they can check all your boxes.

The only solution is a worldwide government that can impose laws in all countries at once, but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.




Be careful what you wish for.

A Gibsonesque global Turing Police is a sure sign of Dystopia.


> The only solution is a worldwide government that can impose laws in all countries at once, but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.

Let's hope the next moustached guy that tries to do this ends up dying in a bunker just like the last one.




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