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by ng12 2718 days ago
> GDPR wasn’t passed by Congress.

That's the point. Neither were SA's censorship laws. You have to conform to laws that wouldn't fly in the USA to do business in other countries.

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I don’t think it’s a valid comparison though because market sizes aren’t the same and because viewing GDPR as a free speech is far from obvious (it actually requires yogi master like bending abilities) You could argue that anti hate speech laws in some European countries (eg France) are the same. It’s also not necessarily correct that ‘you have to conforms to laws ... to do business in other countries’. Many trades treaties supersede local laws also, when there’s political will it’s perfectly possible to restrict what private businesses can do abroad (eg Iran).
> market sizes aren’t the same

I'm not sure why this matters, I'm sure they make enough money from SA users to justify region-locking specific episodes.

> it’s perfectly possible to restrict what private businesses can do abroad

This is not relevant. An appropriate example would be a company operating in a foreign country where they willfully ignore that country's laws.