HACKER Q&A
📣 desi_ninja

If a country gets on the bad side of US, what all tech it can lose?


With the recent Russia-Ukraine war got me thinking how many of these global companies are American first when appropriate time. The stakes were high this time but the boycott could be used as a tool in future for much lower stakes.

Is there a protection against it in other countries? Will AWS, Teams, Google, PayPal, Twitter stop working? What other critical services run by American corp can be at risk?


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Look at Iran and North Korea for case studies of countries that have been under boycott for a long time.

Personally though if Teams and X went away I wouldn't miss 'em.


👤 desi_ninja
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