This highlights one of the undermentioned issues of both international businesses of clashing sets of laws. It is surprising really that this is still done ad-hocly even after many years of international trade and shifting relationships between countries. It is flat out impossible to follow all sets of laws at once.
Even in a 'federate it out to one per country that follows its laws' would become rapidly problematic if linkage to the 'main' company. Google couldn't just set up say a Google-Iran following Iranian laws without violating sanctions.
I'm not sure if there either a 'good' universal answer or one which is widely liked. The easiest and most controlling would be a radical 'ban international business' - it would make the domains clearer but would be a bad idea. Extraterritorality would be a 'technical' solution but would also come with so many problems it isn't funny makes the previous bad idea look good in comparison.
Very good point, but surely this problem is not without precedent? Disputes in international waters come to mind. Maybe there is a need for some kind on international convention governing these matters.
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This highlights one of the undermentioned issues of both international businesses of clashing sets of laws. It is surprising really that this is still done ad-hocly even after many years of international trade and shifting relationships between countries. It is flat out impossible to follow all sets of laws at once.
Even in a 'federate it out to one per country that follows its laws' would become rapidly problematic if linkage to the 'main' company. Google couldn't just set up say a Google-Iran following Iranian laws without violating sanctions.
I'm not sure if there either a 'good' universal answer or one which is widely liked. The easiest and most controlling would be a radical 'ban international business' - it would make the domains clearer but would be a bad idea. Extraterritorality would be a 'technical' solution but would also come with so many problems it isn't funny makes the previous bad idea look good in comparison.
Very good point, but surely this problem is not without precedent? Disputes in international waters come to mind. Maybe there is a need for some kind on international convention governing these matters.
Yeah but they weren't exactly "stable" - they were kinds of incidents which lead to / were used as pretexts for wars.
Internet and enforcibility complicate matters further - even if they formalized say a "free to host to everywhere but not to monetize".