Comment by throw58753
4 months ago
One point to clear up, China did not ban Google. Google left China because they refused to comply with Chinese data sovereignty laws.
Google even tried to crawl back with a search engine that did comply with Chinese laws put activist employees forced them to stop.
Both Microsoft and Apple fully comply with Chinese laws and are doing really well there.
When I hear "data sovereignty" I usually think of things like transfers to another country, etc. Are you using it to refer to censorship here?
If memory serves, China wanted to censor Google, Google declined (had a redirect to the Hong Kong site for a while), China blocked accessing foreign Google sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China has more.