Timeline for Would anything stop a technology company from shutting down in protest of government regulations?
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| Sep 13, 2018 at 16:53 | comment | added | user21424 | Most people in China, if they care, have a VPN that allows them to bypass The Great Firewall. They can get Google etc. There is a very small risk that some govt authority will officially notice, but the most likely outcome is simply that a particular VPN stops working. And occasionally there will be a sweep of all current VPNs, which lasts a few months. Inconvenient mostly. The biggest result is usually nervousness. | |
| Sep 12, 2018 at 13:06 | comment | added | PeterCo | @Xerxes You are right with Spain and "not making the governments back down". But the Spanish newspapers suffer under massive reader shrinkage and loss of online clicks. In addition: If you try to use Google News somewhere in the area of Spain you can not even reach english (or any other language) Google news, because Google News is not available at all. | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 4:14 | comment | added | kkm mistrusts SE | On the subject of Google, I'd add that they killed Street View in Germany and Austria in response to the law requiring them to black out home fronts on owner's requests. This also did not change the government's attitudes. google.com/maps/place/Germany, click on the yellow boy--conspicuously white areas in the blue sea. | |
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 13:36 | history | answered | Xerxes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |