[lencastre]

what a strange game of chicken, why xan’t amzn, msft, et al just contain their infra within euro borders and call it a day? after all the word multi in multinational does not oblige companies to stop selling in Europe, or?

[tracnar]

They do, but the US can still force them to hand over data that's in EU. (This was confirmed by Microsoft France officials.)

[polski-g]

Because that's not how US law works.