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>>rcoves+(OP)
Elsewhere on HackerNews there are discussions about how GDPR regulations affect the internet entirely - not just in the EU.

And there are famous examples how California environmental regulations bring up the quality of products US-wide so everyone benefits from safety and consumer protections not just people in california.

In both cases, this is because it's easier to just have ONE version of a product if your market subset (EU, California) is big enough to justify it becoming the DEFAULT version of the product.

I...am truly terrified this is where we are heading with censorship and Chinese policies and the rest of the free and open web. At what point do companies that have to censor information for their chinese audience decide it's just less of a hassle to have the same censorship apply blanketly world-wide?

>>deanCo+Me
This situation is very advantageous for China companies. They can access foreign markets unhindered, but foreign companies can't access their market without cowtowing to the CCP, and not all companies ready for it.

Maybe the correct solution would be to symmetrically block China's businesses in US and EU, so they would have to abandon either censorship or export of services