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No problem. Maybe just me (perhaps quite some people here as well) had a high expectation over Google. I thought Google pulled off that stunt from a human right stand, rather than from simply being patriotic to the USA. GOOG has much more resources than Elon Musk to do lots of stuffs meaningful for the greater good of human being.

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Well. Ideally, I'm sure they'd like to do both. Pull out of the country(for human rights reasons) and then turn the data over to the feds(for investigative purposes). Goog doesn't have the power to protect the nation or other businesses from similar activities, but they could certainly help the CIA do that, if needed.

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