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Sometimes companies form separate legal entities in each region or country so they can deal with each in isolation.



Yeah but not sure how that works if the parent company is US based, since the US says legal requests even applied to foreign servers in that case. Since large companies have servers all over the world. Then with the cloud and globally accessible services, hard to isolate I think unless there were separate Facebook for each country where you can't friend your friends from Europe if you are in America. Just seems like a mess, but the big companies have enough lawyers to deal with this stuff and advice on conflicts but seems a blow to startups.




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