Still, as long as companies, especially US-based ones like Google, are exporting their US-centric products & practices, people outside the US will be exposed to products & practices shaped by US law.
Because enforcement is rarely watertight, the above holds true even if the importing country’s laws forbid those products & practices.
Therefore, unless you wish to live in ignorance, it’s worth being aware of the laws that most strongly shape the technologies that in turn shape your society - even laws from jurisdictions outside your own.
When you’re in tech or in schools, you learn about this and also about EU and Chinese copyright because some of them can sue the pants off or block your site/material from getting money. If you want to use certain tools, including me using this nonUS website, I need to be aware of their rules so I don’t mess up the terms and services. US apps have something for EU users for this purpose.
So do the laws of China but I don’t know much of their laws. So also does the EU but I assume most yanks don’t know much about those ones either.
I don’t judge but I do get annoyed at USdefaultism
Getting annoyed is a form of judgement.
Yes, U.S. defaultism is problematic.
Still, as long as companies, especially US-based ones like Google, are exporting their US-centric products & practices, people outside the US will be exposed to products & practices shaped by US law.
Because enforcement is rarely watertight, the above holds true even if the importing country’s laws forbid those products & practices.
Therefore, unless you wish to live in ignorance, it’s worth being aware of the laws that most strongly shape the technologies that in turn shape your society - even laws from jurisdictions outside your own.
And which ones from China or the EU are you planning to investigate and learn about? It works both ways.
Not knowing the miniature of laws from other countries is not ignorance, there is only so much a person can learn and take in.
‘Getting annoyed is a form of judgment’ is an incredibly flipant response.
When you’re in tech or in schools, you learn about this and also about EU and Chinese copyright because some of them can sue the pants off or block your site/material from getting money. If you want to use certain tools, including me using this nonUS website, I need to be aware of their rules so I don’t mess up the terms and services. US apps have something for EU users for this purpose.