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Seriously? You're saying that Google, a company with offices in Manchester and London, should be able to operate in the UK, but be completely immune from their

• Houshalter 13y ago
  Well then they aren't a purely American company, or at least they could be considered doing business there. I don't think OP knew that. If Google did exactly the same thing to the exact same people from those countries, but without having offices in the UK, it would have been fine? It's interesting that doing business in a country makes you liable to that country's laws, even for things that happen half way across the world on a web server. Though they very likely do have servers in the UK so that doesn't apply here. The internet is a weird place for the concept of "where" something happened. Though it would be nice if they could provide servers around the world and operate their street cars without making the entire company liable to every single government's laws.