the_duke 2 days ago

The EU has a certain amount of jurisdiction over all companies providing a service to customers located in the EU.

A US company can always stop serving EU customers if it doesn't want to comply with EU laws, but for most the market is too big to ignore.

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shadowgovt 2 days ago

So when one government compels an action another forbids, that's an international political situation.

There is no supreme law at that level; the two nations have to hash it out between them.