[hef19898]

Personally, I think corporations have to respect the laws in all the markets they are operating in, no exceptions. If those laws are contradictory, well international corps are pretty good in using any loop holes, so they gonna figure it out. And if laws in some markets contradict basic values of a company, well, you can always not operate in said market. I'd love if companies would do that. That companies don't is a major way non-sanctioned totalitarian regimes can circumvent western democratic values.

In a way the world was easier during the cold war, good and bad was clearly distinguished, human rights didn't matter in the public opinion as log it was "our" guys doing the violations and things like LGBTQ, minority and women rights were a mere fringe phenomenon in West anyway. I like today's environment better.

[naniwaduni]

"circumvent" makes it sound like they're not taking the straight-line path and ignoring western democratic values and getting away with it

[hef19898]

They are doing both, aren't they?