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And what would they do? Force them to do business in their country? By presumably what means?
by rblatz 8y ago
And what would they do? Force them to do business in their country? By presumably what means?
- toast0 8y agoThe EU could conceivably force them to choose to do business in all or none of the countries in the EU.
- longstaff2009 8y agoThat would be a big gamble for each member country to make.
- slimsag 8y ago- Detaining any executives of the company found within borders or in regions where extradition is possible. - Seizing all company assets, offices, source code, etc. - Breaking the company up and promoting in-borders employees into management positions, etc.
- wav-part 8y agoIts not like Corporations can pay someone else, say US or China, to protect their assets and people. US totally wont fk EUs shit up for few hundreds of billions. No sir, countries can seize and kidnap without consequences, because muh sovereignty.
- vageli 8y ago> No sir, countries can seize and kidnap without consequences, because muh sovereignty. The Jamal Khashoggi tragedy is a very recent example that this has been the sentiment for some time.
- ashelmire 8y agoAll of those things and worse. Remember these nations have vast armies, trillions of dollars of power, bombs, tanks and nuclear weapons, and can seize assets and restrict internet access easily.
- rubbingalcohol 8y agoFrance has vast armies and trillions of dollars? lol On the one hand I think foreign countries griefing American businesses with arbitrary fines is lame. Perhaps they should start their own tech industries instead of leeching off ours. On the other hand, the notion of corporations having enough leverage to dominate sovereign countries - that's scary as hell. There has to be some kind of happy medium here.
- Gokenstein 8y agoAnd... now you understand how China feels about American tariffs?
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoIf Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft all simultaneously stopped doing business in the EU, their competitors would have probably the biggest business opportunity in all of history.