> ... what is allowed is the intersection of behavior that's not penalized in any state of the world.
In a weird way, I think China does this right.
Winnie the Pooh is no longer allowed in China [1]. So they turn it off at the firewall. This is better than say, trying to force all the other companies in the world to comply with some stupid law that China makes up.
While I disagree with China on their use of the firewall to block speech, it's a far better way to do it than to sue Disney to prevent Winnie the Pooh products from coming over into China.
Look at what China is doing to airlines -- "Say Taiwan is a part of China or we won't let you operate here."
They have essentially the same policy as everyone else -- we'll force you to follow our laws, and if we can't we'll shut you out. Blocking the Winnie the Pooh content is no different. If China made up a large part of the audience of those sites, they would "have to" change.
Ditto GDPR -- you can just ignore it and block Europe if you want, they're not forcing you to do anything.
The last time I checked, the US believes that Taiwan is part of China. [1]
China has the stupid laws here. Instead of forcing them onto the rest of the world, they prevent the content from coming into their state.
Likewise GDPR is a "stupid" law, so it's the EU's job to prevent non GDPR sites from coming into Europe, and not Facebook's responsiblity for complying with a stupid law.
> The organization would have to target a data subject in an EU country. Generic marketing doesn’t count. [...] However, any U.S. company that has identified a market in an EU country and has localized Web content should review their Web operations.
(It's actually a decent article that captures the nuances of GDPR well.)
Until they can't and become bullies like with Taiwan.
I'm actually pretty appalled how easily people point to one or two benefits to the way China handles something while completely ignoring the concessions as evidence of them "doing it right". Never mind these short term benefits are coming at the cost of policies that are an affront to liberty and the modern concept of democracy.
So, I'm going to offer a counter opinion; I do not believe China does this "right". Dumb lawsuits are dumb, but I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bath water.
In a weird way, I think China does this right.
Winnie the Pooh is no longer allowed in China [1]. So they turn it off at the firewall. This is better than say, trying to force all the other companies in the world to comply with some stupid law that China makes up.
While I disagree with China on their use of the firewall to block speech, it's a far better way to do it than to sue Disney to prevent Winnie the Pooh products from coming over into China.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855