PsychoEngineer t1_it7nez6 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:02 PM

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> fining,

But this is exactly what they're doing; the 20% penalty, or did you miss that part?

Doomsday31415 t1_it87isd wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:15 PM

The 20% penalty is to do business with the government without meeting their requirements, not to operate in the state.

PsychoEngineer t1_it889fd wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:20 PM

Thus it's a "penalty" which you just admitted... thus a "fine" as the poster said they weren't doing; 6 of one 1/2 dozen of the other.

Doomsday31415 t1_it8dx3i wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:58 PM

Governments set requirements for corporations to do business with them all the time. This isn't that strange.

PsychoEngineer t1_it8hwnh wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:24 PM

But then charging a penalty to certain companies but not others due to a international political issue? I’d like an example please to support your claim that they do similar to this for things… gotta be a foreign issue and limited to penalties related to that foreign issue that certain companies are penalized for and others are not depending on where that companies position is on this foreign issue.

I’ll wait.

Doomsday31415 t1_it9e2pw wrote on October 21, 2022 at 10:05 PM

The US military only provides equipment to movie studios that the US military approves of. All the others have to come up with all that equipment on their own, and are basically doomed to fail as a result.

Your "only this very specific narrow example" is a red herring that ignores that it's very common for the government to provide incentives (e.g. government contracts) for companies on condition of whatever the government wants.