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Tom Cotton: I would urge both of your companies, or any company like yours, to consider whether or not they want to be partners in…

On the recordSeptember 4, 2018
I would urge both of your companies, or any company like yours, to consider whether or not they want to be partners in the fight against our adversaries in places like Beijing and Moscow and Pyongyang and Tehran, as opposed to evenhanded or neutral arbiters.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Cotton encourages tech companies to take sides against adversarial nations.

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