Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
by miracle2k on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:14PM
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> The sovereignty of the United Kingdom over its own territory and incorporated businesses, through laws created by the British parliament which derives its power from the British people, very straightforward.
And yet, the British parliament has a history of creating bad, unjust and undesirable laws (though I make no claim that they do so more frequently than other legislative bodies). This fact leaves you with three options:
- You can engage with OPs argument, which is suggesting that the laws enabling the regulator to do this are bad.
- You can choose not to engage with it, and read on.
- You can post trite observations that the UK can make laws.
The sovereignty of the United Kingdom over its own territory and incorporated businesses, through laws created by the British parliament which derives its power from the British people, very straightforward.
And if you think the British people are more sympathetic to Facebook than the British regulators you have another surprise coming
Whether a business is foreign or not is irrelevant as far as its operations in the UK is concerned. Do you think Chinese owned businesses in the US don't have to comply with American law on American soil?