Re:Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm'...
by gordon_freeman on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:06PM
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if that (the ROI of their presence > the negative ROI of complying with orders) were true, would not Google keep their business going in China?
In reality, it is not easy to measure such RoIs positive or negative.
Re:Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm'...
by silver7017 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:16AM
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the reason is that refusing to comply with chinese censorship laws is not a fine, it is a prison sentence.
This also comes into play w/ recent EU rulings. With a large company, fragmenting features in location-specific ways is reasonable. But for other smaller companies, they have to weigh whether the loss of customers costs less than location-specific feature implementations.
In general, with the internet, we should err on the side of lesser regulation IMO (which can appear to favor businesses over consumers). But this has been a political discussion for ages, predating globalism.