Government wants a throat to choke that is subject to their jurisdiction.
If you have laws governing businesses that operate in your country it seems like a giant loophole if those businesses can avoid them simply having their servers/staff in another country. And in practice this shutting them out of the market is the stick they have to encourage compliance.
Having the company put an office there does not give you anything to choke, unless you did it like Brazil did and threaten lawyers with jail. Even then... that's just a Brazilian lawyer the company hired.
In order to do it right you have to be like a recent SEA nation that demanded the full investment from Apple in their national infra.
Well if we agree that it's reasonable that a company needs to have staff in a country it operates in, then you'd need to have staff in every country to operate. That seems unreasonable to me.
Government wants a throat to choke that is subject to their jurisdiction.
If you have laws governing businesses that operate in your country it seems like a giant loophole if those businesses can avoid them simply having their servers/staff in another country. And in practice this shutting them out of the market is the stick they have to encourage compliance.
Having the company put an office there does not give you anything to choke, unless you did it like Brazil did and threaten lawyers with jail. Even then... that's just a Brazilian lawyer the company hired.
In order to do it right you have to be like a recent SEA nation that demanded the full investment from Apple in their national infra.
What does that have to do with anything? Brazilian law is quite clear. Whatever someone thinks the internet "was" or was not is immaterial.
Well if we agree that it's reasonable that a company needs to have staff in a country it operates in, then you'd need to have staff in every country to operate. That seems unreasonable to me.
Why is that unreasonable?
Within my lifetime that wasn't even physically possible.
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Why should an American/Canadian company care what the law is in some third world country?
So don’t. And don’t operate in that country. It’s that simple
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Exactly, and why would they care if they’re banned in that country.
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