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> If we take "Israel" out of the equation

Then this whole story would disintegrate.

I am baffled by the manufactured outrage this story is generating. "oh no. <country> is sidestepping the NSA which we loudly proclaim to be evil at every opportunity, and (gasp) imposing their own conditions and bullying gigantic tech companies which are even more evil."

This from the same group of people who insist that europe should host their own data.





>Then this whole story would disintegrate.

American companies sidestepping law related to international relationships between the US and other countries in order to benefit a foreign state??

That story would disintegrate? In what universe?


> American companies sidestepping law related to international relationships between the US and other countries in order to benefit a foreign state??

Assuming it's even true, there is no side-stepping international relations between the US and other countries.

If Egypt were to issue a legal order with a gag clause ordering Amazon to release Israeli data, and Amazon were to signal that fact to Israel, how does this involve the US at all?

Seems like you did not understand the story.




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