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>>ANewbu+(OP)
Im sorry, if you run a site some where not in the UK. It doesn't give the country jurisdiction over the entire internet.

If a country wants to enforce some kind of rules, they will have to apply them to the countries residents, because its the resident that go out on the net and conduct the behavior, not the other way around.

This has been common sense for a long time now. Everybody is going crazy/mad. Must be some seriously narcissistic people running the UK.

>>trinsi+hj1
If you are serving the UK market, you follow UK laws. It's that simple. In this case they are misusing UK children's information, that's a no-no in a country that has actual consumer protection laws. I'll wait for the EU to catch up on this too.

While the UK and EU (and US) like to pass stupid laws, in this case it's just an American company misusing citizen's data and not giving a crap. Good riddance.

>>flumpc+HR1
"Serving a particular market" is ridiculous. Just adding Paypal to your website should not require you to understand 200 odd legal jurisdictions.

This needs to end asap.

>>protoc+lt2
If I sell a product to a US citizen I have to pay US income tax despite not being in the US, my business not being in the US, and not creating the product in the US.

I then have to hope the US has a tax treaty with my country in order to attempt to recoup the costs.

Is that fair?