Re:The case against a C alternative
by afiori on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:50AM
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I think GP was referring to enforcing GDPR against companies that do not do business in the EU (no employment, no sales, no bank account, no revenue, no taxes, etc.).
For example, a company like Digital Ocean might have no assets of any kind in the EU (assuming that they don't own their European datacenters), so the EU cannot force them to pay a fine nor seize their assets; the EU could technically sanction them by stopping EU datacenter providers (like AWS-Germany) from renting compute to Digital Ocean, but maybe not for something like a GDPR violation.
For example, a company like Digital Ocean might have no assets of any kind in the EU (assuming that they don't own their European datacenters), so the EU cannot force them to pay a fine nor seize their assets; the EU could technically sanction them by stopping EU datacenter providers (like AWS-Germany) from renting compute to Digital Ocean, but maybe not for something like a GDPR violation.