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by stickfigure 2031 days ago
This is, ultimately, the only way forward: Pick a legal jurisdiction, keep your employees within it, and let the internet bring worldwide customers to you. If other countries try block your packets, that's between them and their citizens.

The more jurisdictions you straddle (with servers, employees), the lower the lowest common denominator of "legal" behavior. At some point the lowest common denominator may be a nonintersecting set - "government must have access to the data" and "data may not leave the country" are incongruent. This will make life increasingly difficult for giant multinationals like FB and Google.

As long as your content is legal in the US, the US will not extradite you for violating Pakistan's (or Europe's) particular flavors of internet censorship. You may want to be careful about international travel, however.