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by int_19h 1270 days ago
It's not about jurisdiction in which the defendant is based, of course, but rather in jurisdiction where it has presence.

If foreign laws were enforceable against actors who never operated in those other countries, we'd have to enforce Saudi laws against atheism and Russian laws against "gay propaganda".

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There are literally millions of US companies with no EU presence, but who have online ordering of digital products. To the parent: Good luck enforcing GDPR on them. They won’t even abide by an EU subpoena that asks “what PII are you storing?” And right to delete? Haha, good luck.
Why should they? What happens when, say, an Arab state passes a law that selling pornography gets a body part chopped off.
Good example. In the US, We thank our circumstances that we were not born in Saudi Arabia. And that’s about it. We buy porn and keep our body parts. The parent traceroute66 has no idea what he’s talking about.