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>>ANewbu+(OP)
How is one country able to fine businesses in other countries? What legal authority or ability do they have to do anything?

>>dreaml+a5
If you do business in a country you have to operate under that country's laws and regulations, regardless of where you are registered.

Most commonly it's the EU fining American tech for GDPR violations and related privacy shenanigans.

>>kyleca+j7
Right, but the UK is saying they'll fine Imgur even after Imgur blocked access. At that point, what tooth does the fine have? "You must pay this fine if you want to, err, nothing I guess"?

>>stavro+Z8
They used to have UK legal presence, and planning to move out. The UK is saying something like "crimes done during your presence won't be ignored".

If Imgur never had UK presence, then yeah there would be no teeth. But if you're doing business in a country you can't break the law then leave and expect them to just ignore what you did during that time.

>>Captai+5c
…but how enforceable would the fine be? They pull out and have no UK assets to seize.

>>BeFlat+8g
Depends.

If you're the US you call planes of out the sky that have representatives and owners of the companies on them.

I'm assuming any leadership of Imgur would want to avoid going to the UK for the rest of eternity.

>>pixl97+mt
Or they simply decide to pay the fine for the short duration they were not in compliance.

I would do that (after appealing) and be done with it.