Re:Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy...
by RestlessMind on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:07PM
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Now I am confused - where exactly do you stand? Should company executives be extradited for not obeying some random country's law even if they haven't broken any law in their home country? If so, I vehemently disagree with you.
> In many cases, corporations are currently more powerful than sovereign nations, and I don't think that's a good thing.
Why not? Tuvalu has a population of 11,000 and a GDP of $34MM. Why should it have more power than Apple, who has 120K employees and $230B revenue in 2017? There are 140 other countries whose GDP is less than Apple, and 40 whose population is less than Apple. Why should they have more power than Apple?
> In many cases, corporations are currently more powerful than sovereign nations, and I don't think that's a good thing.
Why not? Tuvalu has a population of 11,000 and a GDP of $34MM. Why should it have more power than Apple, who has 120K employees and $230B revenue in 2017? There are 140 other countries whose GDP is less than Apple, and 40 whose population is less than Apple. Why should they have more power than Apple?