Also like California passing public health laws and companies deciding it is easier to comply to the entire U.S. instead of duplicating product lines.

It also helps that unlike the R and the C in BRICS, they aren't imperialists threatening and/or invading their neighbours. Brazil is a good world citizen.

Not all, India is in BRICS and they are part of the problem in the tech world.

because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.

Unless the subject is Amazon deforestation, in which case we have to stop these inhuman savages from destroying this global patrimony (mine). Please don't ask who's buying the cattle and soy being grown there or running the mining companies or where I got all this fertile land.

Oh yeah, Russia is real good at keeping those tech oligarchs in check /s

BRICS is such a loosely linked group that generalising like that is just never going to be accurate; Indian and South African, for example, policy on tech regulation couldn't be more different if they tried.

Don't get me wrong, I think BRICS is a good organisation for economic cooperation between these very diverse countries, but there's really no common political, social or economic characteristics.

Brazil is a good example of that, because under Bolsonaro, it couldn't have been more different - regulations on big tech and banning X would never have happened under his tenure (well, at least not with the same goals)

Not India afaik