wonkothesane

Not only the apps are what they are. They buy loyal fans. These have to sign a contract in which they declare to create regularly exclusively positive posts on social media, at the same time report any negative comments, or posts. In return, they receive free plane ticket, accommodation and some game tickets.

Not only did. Quasar spend roughly 200bn EUR for building7 new stadiums, and renovating one more, built numerous roads and metro lines, all on the back of thousands of disposable workers from abroad. They almost brought the FIFA down bc it could be proven that they bought nearly every vote. And while on shopping tour, they bought PSG, and forever changed the transfer market by being the first to easily pay > 200mEUR for a player. Just because Quatrain is run by one family, that likes to compete with another family from UAE owning, I think Manchester, it is. A country that before detecting world’s largest gas reservoir was poor like a church mouse now plays big league.

Btw, they also spend millions and millions to the Gaza Strip, interestingly, they routed the money until recently officially through Israel.

It is also the only country maintaining an official Taliban office outside of Afghanistan.

I know, source, or it didn’t happen. My sources are all in German; I expect it should be easy to google some articles on the country.

CortoMaltese said:

It's just bad politics, the side of good against the side of evil not aligned, as always. I bet with anyone that the apps for the rugby world cup in 2023 and the soccer world cup in 2024 which will take place in France will not be subject to the same warning, as France is getting closer day by day of an undeclared dictatorship.

I hope for you that you are simply uninformed. Please educate yourself about Quatar, France, the GDPR, before posting something that is just painfully wrong.

edit: fixed typo

lkrupp said:

I get notices of class actions occasionally on companies in my investment accounts. My financial advisor always tells me to ignore them because they’re not worth the effort to respond. Years ago there was a class action against Apple over OS 9. Know what I got? An install disc of the last version of OS 9. 

Was that a floppy, or a CD?   

Onm second thought: If His Steveness‘ sandals are up for auction including a book that is mentioning him - well, maybe a mint, shrinkwarpped OS9 would be worth…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8J7Y-8FTE

I don’t want to shout „Sinek“, or „let’s dance our names“, but at least some of this could be the result when your boss has the leadership skills and the emotional intelligence of a rock. 

rob53 said:

It's sad when a country can't come up with their own products and needs to degrade foreign-owned companies by restricting their use. Come on Australia, provide a competitor instead of trying to break up a good company. 

If you can't beat them, destroy them--is the motto of way too many countries.

Two thoughts here:
1. while many companies truly act on a global level, many of the countries they operate in are years behind in that they look at these companies through the limiting viewfinder of their own single country.