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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
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Google layoffs: The company plans to set up a new team in Munich, Germany which would act as "cheaper" labour, the report claimed.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

they can lobby the Feds

The reason why Tik Tok is getting banned

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (6 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act

    Foreign governments and businesses have always been allowed to lobby US officials, under the condition that they register as agents of another government.

    Banning TikTok doesn't prevent business agents from Singapore or China from lobbying in the US. It doesn't even prevent ByteDance specifically from lobbying in the US.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Ok? They still banned tik Tok because it was a threat to alphabet

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The Senate dropped the original TikTok Ban Bill as a stand alone. The House stapled the TikTok ban to its Ukraine relief bill, which Schumer considered a Must-Pass. There's no shortage of Silicon Valley shills in the Dem Majority US Senate, but that's not why the amendment ultimately succeeded.

    This is because Steven Mnuchin is trying to force a buyout for personal gain and lobbying Congressional Republicans to do his dirty work. Its got far less to do with Sundar Pichai fearing that TikTok might eclipse YouTube.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's nice. Doesn't change what I said but whatever.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you track the history of the failed independent TikTok bill in the Senate, you'll understand the situation better.

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