[Clewza313]

South Korea has been regulating its Internet with an iron fist for a long time, with dubious results. For many years, IE was de facto the only browser because the only authorized sign-in method for govt services relied on an ActiveX plugin, and to this date the functionality of eg Google Maps in Korea is crippled because laws regulating maps force all map data and associated services to be in Korea.

[mc32]

Perhaps if more counties required corps to house their citizens’ data locally, they would be better served.

The EU is requiring this, though it EU wide, Russia, and China when it allows them to operate at all.

Coca-cola needs to follow local laws, so why should Facebook or Google etc. be exempt?

[Dracophoenix]

Because information isn't a rival or exclusive product like soft drinks or precious metals. What you're advocating for is a Splinter-net/Great Firewall.

[cma]

Shouldn't each country in the world be forced through network effects to export 30% of its purely local taxi revenue to the US (Uber's end game)?