Companies should have learned to deal with this with communist China in the 1990s. When the CCP started making egregious demands to censor content and hand over intellectual property rights to the Chinese State, big business should have rebelled and refused. They didn't. They took the money. Now, the EU is leveraging its 750M+ population and market to demand even more aggressive concessions of corporate policy. They pass a law, and demand that foreign companies enforce that law globally. It's ballsy, for sure.
Companies should have learned to deal with this with communist China in the 1990s. When the CCP started making egregious demands to censor content and hand over intellectual property rights to the Chinese State, big business should have rebelled and refused. They didn't. They took the money. Now, the EU is leveraging its 750M+ population and market to demand even more aggressive concessions of corporate policy. They pass a law, and demand that foreign companies enforce that law globally. It's ballsy, for sure.