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It seems to me theres some kind of balance between ignoring crimes that aren't committed inside your borders, and prosecuting crimes regardless of where they ar
by benj111 7y ago
It seems to me theres some kind of balance between ignoring crimes that aren't committed inside your borders, and prosecuting crimes regardless of where they are committed. It seems to be a generally good thing to punish a company for employing slaves on their African plantation. Less good to be suing a European bar for selling to 'underage' 18 year olds.
If you start prosecuting everything and trampling over the laws of other nations, aren't they then going to start trampling back. Internet companies are largely US companies, how are they going to be able to function if they have to follow mutually exclusive laws. Eg if promotion of homosexuality is illegal in X, and free speech is protected in Y and both nations enforce their laws globally, what do you do?
- ndiscussion 7y agoYou defer to the most powerful. Right now you bow down to the United States. If the United States doesn't care about your case, you bow down to China. And if they don't care, you bow down to Russia. If they don't care, best of luck to you... you're on your own.
- benj111 7y agoBut the US benefits from global trade as much as, if not more than other countries. This isn't a 'tax' that will just be paid by foreign countries, it will be passed on to US companies, it just seems incredibly short sighted.