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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
Pay this fine if you don't want to be arrested when entering the UK? Not that they plan to after this...

>>nicksl+lb
Imgur isn't a person, and the UK gov isn't ICE.

The whole point of corporations is that the company is liable, not its employees. also the shareholders are only liable for the money they put in, and not anything else.

Convictions in the UK are non-transferable. you can't convict a company, then transfer guilt onto its employees, they need to be tried at the same time.