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This highlights one of the undermentioned issues of both international businesses of clashing sets of laws. It is surprising really that this is still done ad-h
by Nasrudith 7y ago
This highlights one of the undermentioned issues of both international businesses of clashing sets of laws. It is surprising really that this is still done ad-hocly even after many years of international trade and shifting relationships between countries. It is flat out impossible to follow all sets of laws at once.
Even in a 'federate it out to one per country that follows its laws' would become rapidly problematic if linkage to the 'main' company. Google couldn't just set up say a Google-Iran following Iranian laws without violating sanctions.
I'm not sure if there either a 'good' universal answer or one which is widely liked. The easiest and most controlling would be a radical 'ban international business' - it would make the domains clearer but would be a bad idea. Extraterritorality would be a 'technical' solution but would also come with so many problems it isn't funny makes the previous bad idea look good in comparison.
- dunkelheit 7y agoVery good point, but surely this problem is not without precedent? Disputes in international waters come to mind. Maybe there is a need for some kind on international convention governing these matters.
- Nasrudith 7y agoYeah but they weren't exactly "stable" - they were kinds of incidents which lead to / were used as pretexts for wars. Internet and enforcibility complicate matters further - even if they formalized say a "free to host to everywhere but not to monetize".