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As distasteful as it can be to Western sensibilities, nobody should be surprised when an international corporation complies with the law of the nation in which
by shadowgovt 4y ago
As distasteful as it can be to Western sensibilities, nobody should be surprised when an international corporation complies with the law of the nation in which it is operating.
It's one of the things that makes a corporation international.
- namlem 4y agoIn this case they should, because Iran is subject to sanctions. Meta should not be complying with their requests.
- tchalla 4y agoIs that how sanctions work?
- shadowgovt 4y agoIt is unclear because sanctions law is so complicated. https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-twitter-violate-us-sanctions-law https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-twitter-violate-us-sanctions...
- Kamq 4y agoDepends on the sanction (and where the company is based). Specifically for Iran? I'm not entirely sure if there's restrictions on compliance with general requests.
- rakoo 4y agoIf Meta were to comply with western sanctions, shouldn't they prohibit all access to all the people in Iran ?