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Why don't we have internet havens yet? Companies are so clever in legally avoiding tax by registering companies in the most favourable jurisdictions and only ru
by dustinmoris 6y ago
Why don't we have internet havens yet? Companies are so clever in legally avoiding tax by registering companies in the most favourable jurisdictions and only running the absolute minimum of operations through tax expensive countries and so on, why don't we have the equivalent for avoiding dumb laws such as US trade wars, DMCA takedowns, etc.?
Can most internet operations not run through companies who are registered and have servers in a country where most of those laws don't apply to customers who are not US citizen?
- est31 6y agoThe reward for dodging taxes is pretty high. What's the reward of letting a few folks open their laptop while at their parents? If you are ideologically motivated, you might do it. Apparently project Gutenberg has set up servers in locations with shorter copyright durations so that they can mirror public domain books. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610024
- arghwhat 6y ago> Why don't we have internet havens yet? Companies pull tricks to optimize profits. Evading tax increases profit, but so does controlling the internet and sending blanket DMCA takedown requests instead of spending money on case-by-case review. Heck, if the big companies wanted to avoid these things, they'd probably wouldn't be lobbying for these things.