> It's an absurd goal to try to make it easy for six engineers alone to scale to the entire planet.
That's an interesting assertion. As counter-example to that assertion, [gestures at huge amounts of the internet as we know it, which was started by small teams.]
And I'm not talking about scaling to 7 billion users. I'm talking about scaling to all of _my_ users, even though they live in dozens or hundreds of countries.
Your demand of having users does not supersede my right to have laws enforced in my jurisdiction. That's the point of sovereignty.
If that means I don't get your business and I'm worse off for it, I'm happy to have my laws changed. Or maybe someone else will come up with the same service who does follow the local law.
You're basically discovering something that physical stores have had to deal with forever. Gary's International Store of Chainsaws and Weed knows that it can't sell chainsaws in jurisdictions where chainsaws are illegal to sell from stores. The people of that jurisdiction made the decision that chainsaws should not be sold from stores; Gary doesn't get to ignore that. Instead he has to incorporate the fact that not all stores get the same inventory in his logistics.
If that means Gary refuses to open his stores in such jurisdictions at all, that's fine. The people of the jurisdiction can decide whether they're happy with the outcome and change their laws if they're not.
>Gary has every right to object if Indiana says he can only sell chainsaws made in Indiana, as that would be an absurd law.
He has the right to object in any case. That's free speech. But despite all his objections, he either does his business respecting the law or doesn't do business at all.
It's funny that you think that such a law would be absurd, when laws that require a store to sell locally-produced goods over imported ones also already exist in the real world.
>Forcing me to run servers in France is absurd.
You're welcome to think that. Don't run servers in France then.
That's an interesting assertion. As counter-example to that assertion, [gestures at huge amounts of the internet as we know it, which was started by small teams.]
And I'm not talking about scaling to 7 billion users. I'm talking about scaling to all of _my_ users, even though they live in dozens or hundreds of countries.