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Lol. I mean, you’re right. The EU can’t make laws that apply to the entire universe like they wish they could and claim they do, but that was the whole point of
by jtbayly 6y ago
Lol. I mean, you’re right. The EU can’t make laws that apply to the entire universe like they wish they could and claim they do, but that was the whole point of GDPR.
They claim that any company that has dealings with an EU citizen has to follow their laws. Of course they can’t do that. They could have passed a law forbidding their citizens from interacting with businesses that didn’t follow certain rules, since they have the ability to make rules for their citizens, but for some odd reason they decided not to.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The EU can’t make laws that apply to the entire universe like they wish they could and claim they do Yes, they can. So can (and does!) the US. Either may have trouble enforcing them in some cases, but that’s true even of laws within their own territorial domain.
- jtbayly 6y agoThey can’t “apply” to me if they don’t apply to me. The whole point of sovereignty is to say where laws apply. Politics and war are the negotiation of those questions.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The whole point of sovereignty is to say where laws apply. No, the whole point of sovereignty is that if you have it, you are ultimately the arbiter of your laws, including the bounds of where they apply. You may have practical problems getting your hands on people to apply them, of course, but that’s a separate issue.
- jtbayly 6y agoUnder your definition there is no such thing as sovereignty. Each individual decides for himself.
- dragonwriter 6y agoNo, lots of entities (including many at levels far above individuals) have superior authorities that decide how wide the subordinate entities writ runs.
- jtbayly 6y agoNo. All they can do is punish me for disobeying.