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You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not

You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not travel to Saudi Arabia or any other country that will extradict. Also Saudi Arabia will propably ban your App, which is what is happening in Brasil.

AnthonyMouse 10y ago
> You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not travel to Saudi Arabia or any other country that will extradict. And that is the problem. You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries to see if their app is legal in each of them just because they're going to distribute it on the internet, to say nothing of what happens when two countries have mutually contradictory laws (e.g. privacy vs. data retention). And a person who goes to see the Great Pyramids shouldn't have to worry about being hauled off to Saudi Arabia and then stoned to death because their app doesn't prohibit blasphemy. > Also Saudi Arabia will propably ban your App, which is what is happening in Brasil. Which only increases the proliferation of tools to bypass the restriction.
- tomcorrigan 10y ago
  > You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries You could expect facebook, with their almost infinite resources to so.
  - ThisIs_MyName 10y ago
    No business should play along with their BS or hand over customer data. I never thought I'd say this, but: Good on Facebook for not complying.
    - kuschku 10y ago
      So, VW should be able to sell cars in the US ignoring the environmental laws, too?
      - gambiting 10y ago
        VW has an actual office in the US - it's not VW Germany selling cars in the US, but VW America. If you purchased a VW car in Germany and had it shipped over to the US it would be on YOU to make sure it complies with all requirements of your country, not Volkswagen's.
- kuschku 10y ago
  Selling apps is like selling any other product. I can’t sell medical marihuana in most states of the US – and I don’t go and try, and then complain about getting arrested. Instead, if I wanted to start a business doing that, I’d check out where it would be legal, and in which ways, and sell my product in those markets. Why do you assume you can sell your product in markets without having checked the legality, and then complain when they ban your product because it violates the local law?

AnthonyMouse 10y ago

> You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not travel to Saudi Arabia or any other country that will extradict. And that is the problem. You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries to see if their app is legal in each of them just because they're going to distribute it on the internet, to say nothing of what happens when two countries have mutually contradictory laws (e.g. privacy vs. data retention). And a person who goes to see the Great Pyramids shouldn't have to worry about being hauled off to Saudi Arabia and then stoned to death because their app doesn't prohibit blasphemy. > Also Saudi Arabia will propably ban your App, which is what is happening in Brasil. Which only increases the proliferation of tools to bypass the restriction.

tomcorrigan 10y ago
> You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries You could expect facebook, with their almost infinite resources to so.
- ThisIs_MyName 10y ago
  No business should play along with their BS or hand over customer data. I never thought I'd say this, but: Good on Facebook for not complying.
  - kuschku 10y ago
    So, VW should be able to sell cars in the US ignoring the environmental laws, too?
    - gambiting 10y ago
      VW has an actual office in the US - it's not VW Germany selling cars in the US, but VW America. If you purchased a VW car in Germany and had it shipped over to the US it would be on YOU to make sure it complies with all requirements of your country, not Volkswagen's.
kuschku 10y ago
Selling apps is like selling any other product. I can’t sell medical marihuana in most states of the US – and I don’t go and try, and then complain about getting arrested. Instead, if I wanted to start a business doing that, I’d check out where it would be legal, and in which ways, and sell my product in those markets. Why do you assume you can sell your product in markets without having checked the legality, and then complain when they ban your product because it violates the local law?