Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

Re:Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes by acuozzo on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @11:10AM (#43173706)

> even if your product is purely software, you can be considered to have operations in that country

Couldn't users in pretty much every internet-connected country use VPNs and other methods of cross-borders indirection to access even those US services which explicitly block non-US IP ranges?

If this is the case, then is it not the case under the quoted reasoning above that any internet company should be expected to have operations in every other internet-connected country?

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Re:Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes by TheCapeGreek on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:31AM (#43181542)

I didn't say it was sensible policy. But yes.

It's the same reason Australia and now South Africa demand payment from Meta and Google for revenues related to links going to local news sites and the like.

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