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>doesn’t apply to people not under those jurisdictions. Of course not but if an American company in the US caters to EU users with, for example, a localized si
by Dah00n 2y ago
>doesn’t apply to people not under those jurisdictions.
Of course not but if an American company in the US caters to EU users with, for example, a localized site it does absolutely apply to them. Same the other way around. Just because you or your server are too small to matter doesn't mean it is irrelevant.
America doesn't make the world rules is often said when they create one set of rules for them and another for everyone else (US can have warships near china but if it was reversed we would have a new Cuban crisis) and when they create rules in places they have the most power to create international laws that fit their world view but not their enemies. In a perfect world the US would have zero power and zero say a meter outside its borders.
- stickfigure 2y agoNobody is going to extradite you for not having a cookie banner. EU can't _actually_ make laws like that. The reason gambling/child porn/fincrime/etc are enforced across national boundaries is that everyone (at least, in the western world) respects those laws and absolutely will extradite. Cookie laws, anti-encryption laws, anti-(adult)-porn laws are not like this.
- bee_rider 2y agoDid we actually complain about a Chinese freedom of navigation activity? I think the US vigorously supports the right of all countries to send a carrier fleet to hang out in international waters wherever…