As a country you can apply standards to companies which are operating in your legal framework. Germany for example prosecutes (German and probably foreign) comp

As a country you can apply standards to companies which are operating in your legal framework. Germany for example prosecutes (German and probably foreign) companies which bribe in other countries. Siemens was a big example in the 90s. Same applies to free speech. The US could apply a law to their companies but they do not (because free unbound capitalism). I ignore anything related to national security in this argument :).