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* That is a US company * The ban affects US companies * The taxes affect US citizens * The laws affect US citizens This has nothing to do with this decision

* That is a US company * The ban affects US companies * The taxes affect US citizens * The laws affect US citizens This has nothing to do with this decision. What Canada is aiming to do is to force a non-Canadian company to follow Canadian law even if it does not operate at all in Canada.

lovich 8y ago
It's interacting with Canadian citizenship and being paid by Canadian companies for advertising. If it's literally doing no operations inside of Canada then they have nothing to worry about because Canada couldn't do anything to them. Its pretty hypocritical of companies to rely on local laws to protect them but then act like all their customers on the internet don't exist in any real space and aren't under a nation states juridisction. I'd prefer a completely free internet, but you don't get to have it both ways
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hunter23 8y ago
Just to be clear I was responding to the OP's statement "One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns". This is incorrect - a nation regularly forms laws on what its companies and citizens can do outside of its borders and concerns. Now what you are staying is something completely different from the OPs argument - you are stating "Google is not a Canadian entity so neither Op's or my arguments matter". I am not a legal expert so I have no idea but the statement that Google "does not operate at all in Canada" seems misleading as I know that Google has offices based in Canada. They have Canadian citizens working in Canadian offices under a registered entity so I am not sure why you are saying that Google "does not operate at all in Canada".
8note 8y ago
Google makes money advertising to Canadians. that sounds a lot like operating in canada
kahnpro 8y ago
Then Google needs to close its Canadian offices, and stop providing services to Canadians.

lovich 8y ago

It's interacting with Canadian citizenship and being paid by Canadian companies for advertising. If it's literally doing no operations inside of Canada then they have nothing to worry about because Canada couldn't do anything to them. Its pretty hypocritical of companies to rely on local laws to protect them but then act like all their customers on the internet don't exist in any real space and aren't under a nation states juridisction. I'd prefer a completely free internet, but you don't get to have it both ways

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hunter23 8y ago

Just to be clear I was responding to the OP's statement "One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns". This is incorrect - a nation regularly forms laws on what its companies and citizens can do outside of its borders and concerns. Now what you are staying is something completely different from the OPs argument - you are stating "Google is not a Canadian entity so neither Op's or my arguments matter". I am not a legal expert so I have no idea but the statement that Google "does not operate at all in Canada" seems misleading as I know that Google has offices based in Canada. They have Canadian citizens working in Canadian offices under a registered entity so I am not sure why you are saying that Google "does not operate at all in Canada".

8note 8y ago

Google makes money advertising to Canadians. that sounds a lot like operating in canada

kahnpro 8y ago

Then Google needs to close its Canadian offices, and stop providing services to Canadians.