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> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality to check which law you must follow to do business with them Can you
by purple_ducks 7y ago
> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality to check which law you must follow to do business with them
Can you imagine a grocery chain who wants to profit from potential customers all over the world but doesn't want to obey local laws in the jurisdictions it operates in?
If people don't want to serve people outside their jurisdiction, do an IP lookup as some US outlets chose to do.
Hacky US start-ups don't get to dictate the rules of the game to the world.
- gedy 7y agoIt's more like an international customer calling a US business on the telephone and placing an order. That's not 'serving outside their jurisdiction'.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoI mean... An international customer can call a US business to place an order, that doesn't mean the US business needs to follow through with or accept this order. Lots of US small businesses I know about don't serve international markets in the hobbyist circles I come from, even though they most definitely have demand there.
- noodlesUK 7y agoYeah, and you know what, if I called Walmart and tried to buy half the groceries they sell to then resell to UK customers, I’d probably end up paying massive fines or even in prison. I can’t source products that don’t comply with the law, even if they are legal where I bought them. I can probably get away with it for personal use, but there isn’t free movement of goods like that.
- hartator 7y ago> If people don't want to serve people outside their jurisdiction, do an IP lookup as some US outlets chose to do. Are you sure your comment you've just made comply with the law of all the 200 countries in the world?