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How is that fundamentally different from a ban?

You could phrase it thus:

"Here are our rules we want you to follow. If you choose not to, you are banned from operating in our country"

"We cannot follow your rules because those rules are unacceptable to us / would undermine our business model / would compromise our position in other countries we care about more / insert other reason here"

"Then you are banned"




A ban means when you operate in a country, you violate their rule, or whatever they call rule, then you are banned.

In this case, you haven’t operated in this country, the government of this country tells you that if you want to operate, you have to follow rule a, rule b… Then you choose to not follow these rules, and quit.

These are different.

Another example is you are operating in a country and not violating any rule from the very beginning. One day when you are strong enough and the government of this country feels you’re threaten. Then they tells you that you have to sell your branch in their country, if not you will be banned.

Now you get it?




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