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Why can't any interested entity set up a company in the Scandinavian states? So how would that really help?
by Xylakant 14y ago
Why can't any interested entity set up a company in the Scandinavian states? So how would that really help?
- PeterisP 14y agoIn order to be safe from unreasonable government "requests", it is not enough to set up a limited liability company located in a 'safe' country - you need to have everything (including yourself) in 'safe' countries. As a blunt example, if you want to properly run a data-sensitive company and be imune to (for example) USA requests to violate anonymity of your customers, you need to ensure at least the following: (a) the company itself is beyond reach of USA - as in examples of UK, Sweden and others caving in to USA requests for things that would/should be legal in these countries but illegal in USA; (b) you and any personell are beyond reach of USA - again, there are examples such as Kim Dotcom, McKinnon, Assange; (c) the company internet resources are beyond reach of USA - examples such as revoking DNS names of spanish companies for transmitting internet-TV in compliance with spanish laws, or some of Mega's non-US domain names revoked before even starting operations; (d) the company money flow is beyond reach of USA - examples of Visa&Mastercard or Paypal blocking payments to sources such as Wikileaks or, IIRC, distributors of (locally legal) console modchips.