Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16 in Southeast Asia’s largest phone market.
The Indonesian Ministry of Industry said Google’s phones cannot be traded until they comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones sold in Indonesia.
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Shouldn't they be banning the internet as well?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 1 Nov
Interesting...
I wonder if Indonesians will be upset about this.
A similar thing happened with the Australian gov asking Facebook to pay for local news content. They paid for a year and then stopped. I think we all know tech companies have the upper hand.
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Indonesians (as many others) don't have a say in it and their government doesn't care whether they like it or not.
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