And 3 - light the CEO of the company that create this on fire.

Sounds like they get repaired a lot. Which means there's a big market for parts. Many car thefts are to strip them for parts.

You didn't think people steal cars to drive around in themselves, did you?

It's like VR glasses. An expensive toy that tech bros want to sell that nobody wants to buy or really has any use for.

If you never but it in the first place because it's pointless, you don't care how long it lasts.

Is there anything about this company that isn't shady? I don't recall ever seeing anything good about them.

They are, though maintaining the copper infrastructure is pretty expensive. Business lines average over $300/month with a contract (and a lot more without).

And you'd pay at least $300-400/month for it, if not more (and that with a 3 year contract).

(One line that we cancelled that had been out of contract for a long, long time was running over $2,000/month for a single POTS line. Yes, really. Even the guy at AT&T that took the cancellation order was shocked.)

There was some kind of settlement a few years back.

Can't say I celebrated it either.

And they're processing transactions through EU banks. Don't want to follow EU law? Then you don't get to collect EU money. Half a dozen phone calls, and Ali isn't doing business in the EU at all.

But they're collecting payment via banks in the EU, who will not hesitate to tell those banks to refuse all transactions from Ali if they feel the need to.

If they're shipping physical product, that product goes through Customs at the EU border. Or it doesn't go through, as the case may be.

There was an extended period of time that executives for DeBeers (the diamond company) couldn't enter the US without being arrested for anti-trust violations. It's not an idle threat.

There's also the option of just refusing to allow any goods to enter the EU from Ali, period.

Amazon's search function is pretty much useless and has been for a while. The best way to find the specific product you're looking for on Amazon is to search on Google (and that's not exactly great, it just sucks less than Amazon's search).

Who says? I'm sure the impact will wake them up.

The only thinking involved is wishful thinking.

The counterpoint to that is the more stable and prosperous the US is, the more the people of China will want to be like the US, and that is a huge threat to the current power structure in China. They may well not want a total collapse of the US economy, but having it take a big hit and a visible reduction in the standard of living would enhance stability in China, which is the first concern.