Are Google and Amazon Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall?

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When am i ivot two of my sources in the senate used exactly the same phrase to me, which is that these companies are throwing spaghetti at the wall. Probably their strongest argument actually, is that cishumers quite like a lot of this. But the industry doesn't like the hall package, so it will keep using these arguments as long as the're thnk they're geting atraction. And there is one particular one that, hey, if you do this, you're going to let chinese companies in.

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