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lencastretoday at 3:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

what a strange game of chicken, why xan’t amzn, msft, et al just contain their infra within euro borders and call it a day? after all the word multi in multinational does not oblige companies to stop selling in Europe, or?


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tracnartoday at 3:27 PM

They do, but the US can still force them to hand over data that's in EU. (This was confirmed by Microsoft France officials.)

polski-gtoday at 3:37 PM

Because that's not how US law works.