>They do if you do business in Europe, for example by serving users in Europe. Nope, that's not doing business in Europe. If EU users come to my American-locat

>They do if you do business in Europe, for example by serving users in Europe. Nope, that's not doing business in Europe. If EU users come to my American-located site (or git repo or wherever) and grab my code that's theirs and the EU's business. Again, same as if some Iranian came and posted a comment deemed insulting to muhammad under their law or a Chinese citizen with a picture of Xinnie the Pooh genociding Uyghurs or used my software in some way to do the same or evade local censorship or something. Chinese or Iranian or EU government are then free to tell me to change my ways or give them info on the user or block them or whatever. Or demand I pay fines and go to jail. And I'm free to tell them to kiss my red white and blue ass. If it's against the law in the US too, including treaties we've signed with other countries binding us as a matter of domestic law as well, then absolutely of course Americans have to respect that. Or again, if somebody wanted to maintain assets and presence in another country. Otherwise explain to me the exact mechanics by which you expect one of the courts from the other 194 countries in the world to enforce their own laws in the US contrary to US law? Also, obviously if I make use of a large site that has physical presence in the EU, then the EU will have some level of sway over that site in turn, and could demand they block me to all EU citizens, or for that matter demand that they ban me and anyone else and enforce EU law worldwide. And then they would have to decide if it was worth staying under EU jurisdiction or not, and the US Government would have to decide whether to retaliate and demand EU companies enforce US law in the EU or be banned from the US market and it'd spiral off into far higher office and diplomacy. But none of that is the problem of those of us on the ground floor beyond convenience and our dependence (or not) on multinational mega entities. Can always fallback to our own local stuff.