[AnthonyMouse]

> You might do this and then you get convicted in absentia, Saudi Arabia will send a request for extradiction, your country will say no, done. Except: better not travel to Saudi Arabia or any other country that will extradict.

And that is the problem. You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries to see if their app is legal in each of them just because they're going to distribute it on the internet, to say nothing of what happens when two countries have mutually contradictory laws (e.g. privacy vs. data retention). And a person who goes to see the Great Pyramids shouldn't have to worry about being hauled off to Saudi Arabia and then stoned to death because their app doesn't prohibit blasphemy.

> Also Saudi Arabia will propably ban your App, which is what is happening in Brasil.

Which only increases the proliferation of tools to bypass the restriction.

[tomcorrigan]

> You can't actually expect people to hire lawyers from 108 different countries

You could expect facebook, with their almost infinite resources to so.

[ThisIs_MyName]

No business should play along with their BS or hand over customer data.

I never thought I'd say this, but: Good on Facebook for not complying.

[kuschku]

So, VW should be able to sell cars in the US ignoring the environmental laws, too?

[gambiting]

VW has an actual office in the US - it's not VW Germany selling cars in the US, but VW America.

If you purchased a VW car in Germany and had it shipped over to the US it would be on YOU to make sure it complies with all requirements of your country, not Volkswagen's.