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It's my understanding that the content provider is only responsible for laws in areas where their data is hosted. Does Twitter have a data center in France? If

It's my understanding that the content provider is only responsible for laws in areas where their data is hosted. Does Twitter have a data center in France? If not, how did this end up in French court?

nawitus 13y ago
Any country can sue any person or any company around the world if they want to. The question is if such sentences can be enforced.
DannyBee 13y ago
Your understanding is incorrect. You just generally won't get your datacenter raided except for violating the laws of the country where you host data. Most nations (US included) try to claim jurisdiction over anything that affects people in their nation. In practice, your choices end up being: 1. Comply or some combination of: 2a. Have any local offices (not datacenter) raided and any country-level execs possibly arrested 2b. Having any remote execs arrested if they ever end up in that country.
- codezero 13y ago
  But if you have no offices then you are OK? Thanks, by the way for clarifying.
  - desas 13y ago
    If you don't have any offices, money or staff based in a country, and no-one visits it (even for holiday), then they have nothing to enforce the law against.