Compliance with legal features of various nations does not divorce companies from the responsibility for the results if they choose to comply. Actively partici

Compliance with legal features of various nations does not divorce companies from the responsibility for the results if they choose to comply. Actively participating in oppressive behavior makes companies complicit. This is why companies today rightly face criticism for use of slave labor, abusive labor, resource exploitation, helping governments restrict speech, helping governments breach privacy (which results in people actually dying in places like Russia). Just because these things are legal to not make them right or acceptable to Western exployees, shareholders or governments. If Russia demanded that I must take actions that would potentially result in deaths from their authoritarian regime, like by giving them access to our customer's communications, I'd tell them to get bent.