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When it comes to money and finance, Wall Street is far better at the lobbying game than Facebook could ever hope to be. That's why Congress reacted to the Libra announcement in such a very quick and very negative way.
As for IBM, its offshoring evolved over many decades, they didn't just move everything one year to save some project of theirs from U.S. government influence.
they don't have to pack up everything at once. Just set up a new office and let the old one slowly lose relevance. that's what AMZN did when Seattle tried to impose add'l taxes to help the homeless -- AMZN announced a new HQ search and halted construction in seattle
(seattle city council eventually repealed the new tax to bribe amzn to stay)
Small dev world city dependant on big car co factory. 20 y ago: illegal strike, 20%workers fired. Gov interferes .Told to fo, "we can move whole production within 6 months to another accommodating country,move top brass,spare capacity everywhere,planned for these scenarios"
Even if Facebook left tomorrow, they would be very foolish to defy the hegemon. To do something like that, you’d need to be indifferent to advertising revenue. And you’d need anonymity and encryption. (Jus’ sayin’.)
In any event, Zuck’s already a paranoiac building his office plan around state-level threats and probably living like Howard Hughes. He’s not going against the USG.
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