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When you do business in another country, you are subject to its laws. You can choose to not worry about other countries laws very easily: do not do any business

• comboy 8y ago
  I have no idea about details of Huawei situation, but if your product ends up in given country do you do business there? How about providing a website and not filtering users by country? In most countries laws are created faster than citizens can learn them even if they would put a lot of effort into that. In many cases those who vote them haven't even read them in detail. There is no single person on the planet who knows all laws in all countries. Should we abandon the idea of the Internet? It would be purely hypothetical pondering if not for GDPR which bring a lot of mess to countries outside EU and cut off some EU users from the content which they could otherwise consume. Unless regulators get their stuff together reasonably quick, we may likely end up in some more encrypted and decentralized version of the Internet which makes governments less relevant. I don't mind.
  • azernik 8y ago
    In this particular case, it was that Huawei was purchasing US-made products to which sanctions applied and exporting them to Iran. I highly doubt that Huawei executives were unaware that this was against US policy and law; they just thought that the US would only punish the corporation and not the people involved, without realizing that the arm of US law extends to a whole web of countries that have extradition treaties with it. See also the German VW executives who are very restricted in where they can travel to based on their crimes in the diesel emissions scandal.