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by korisnik 3907 days ago
>It's not about territory control, it's about industry control.

He's talking about application of laws in foreign territories. Naturally, for the benefit of US and its own industry. How is that substantially different from what you're saying?

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Every day we're hearing about another country attempting to apply it's laws on people not in the country. I've seen Canada, France, Germany. The US is huge in this, but they're hardly alone.

[1] Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-ordere... [2] France: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984524/privacy/france-reject... [3] Germany: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98593