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Take off, ya hosers! Silicon Valley court says Google can safely ignore Canadian search ban

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Can someone please explain the legal reasoning behind this?

@BJ, I'm surprised that you as resident representative of the redneck community can't see that a US company NEVER wants the US approach to law enforcement ("our laws are valid everywhere") applied to the US itself. There's a simple reason for that: they would then have to spend even more money (read: have less profit) on buying the laws they need.

They would have to start lobbying in every country with a sane government to retain some measure of control. These guys follow the Microsoft playbook and history to the letter, so they already know that that is not sustainable, at least not if they want to stay as profitable. The only thing they want from other countries is every scrap of data on its citizens they can get hold of, and definitely as few restrictions as they can get engineer.

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