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ZickZack@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Surely a company should be governed by the laws of the state in which they are based

This is not true and wouldn't make why sense: let's say you are a delivery company and one of your drivers runs over a dog in Texas. The lawsuit can be filed in Texas, regardless of whether your company is in Texas, California, or even outside the united states. The place you are incorporated in doesn't change the damages or laws you violated when running over the dog. Of course you can also move the venue to the state the company is based in.

You cannot (generally) move it to another state, since that state doesn't even have jurisdiction over any part of the incident.

The internet is just special in the sense that really something that happened on the internet happened everywhere on earth at the same time, meaning any venue is a place where potential damages were accrued.

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