> I'm surprised more businesses don't ban all of Texas as customers to prevent any litigation happening there.
Businesses are often the ones structuring agreements so that they can sue customers there and so that customers are forced to sue them there, so...that would seem counterproductive.
Even before considering the size of the market you’d be cutting off.
Businesses sue? Blame customers! In order to save the village we had to destroy the village! There needs to be some massive reforms, especially with copyright.
It's funny how regionalism pops up on the internet. Thing is, it's less than 10% of the country (and surely not all of those 29MM are on the internet), and there are other businesses surviving just fine foregoing a TAM of the whole country.
How can you be so sure it's not regionalism that's causing you to dismiss nearly 10% of one of the largest, richest countries in the world as inconsequential?
The top comment is from a legal expert basically saying that TPM's success in this lawsuit depends on avoiding Texas a jurisdiction, and the product in question is not possible without winning this lawsuit.
It's not that Texas is inconsequential. It's that the choice is "cut off Texas or risk the entire business in the other 49 states".
Oh, it absolutely is regionalism, in the form of "Texas is a corrupt legal shitshow and it can be a smart business move to refuse to do any business there."
And because HN only allows me like 3 comments a day, I'd like to emphasize "can."
Not all users are created equal. This is why many internet businesses cater exclusively to a wealthy country that contains only 6% (that is, excluding 94% of internet users) of the people on the internet.
In this case, it would be TPM banning Texas customers, since Texas is the favorable venue for AA.
That doesn't seem like as big a deal, since TPM doesn't have a giant corporate headquarters to relocate and can cutting Texas from the TAM isn't that big of a deal.
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