[AusNOG] Interesting

[Matt Palmer]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:10:14PM +0930, John Lindsay wrote:
> Most of the globals aren't "in" NZ so whatever. 

They're in NZ if NZ says they're in NZ.  The funny thing about
multinationals is that they tend to have *something* going on everywhere. 
Even if you don't have any *business* operations in the country, the first
time some executive goes there for a skiing holiday, they end up being
arrested for the "crimes" of the company.  While I think NZ would be *nuts*
to do it, I think they're nuts for having rolled out this regulation in the
first place, so at this point, we're already in the Twilight Zone.

IIRC that sort of thing happened to someone from a big Australian company
involving China somehow (either they went *to* China and got arrested, or
they were of Chinese origin and got arrested somewhere else...  don't
recall, and my Google fu is failing).  Hell, the US is *famous* for this
sort of shenanigan -- judgment in absentia, wait a while, then when the
person thinks the heat is off and goes somewhere US-friendly, the next thing
they know they're taking a very extended holiday in a Federal
pound-you-in-the-ass.  Perhaps they don't even wait -- Experian's favourite
Vietnamese customer got lured to Guam, and it was all over for him (and
quite rightly so, I might add, just in case someone thinks I'm pro-identity
theft).

My point is, avoiding a country *entirely* is very hard for a modern
company, and countries have astonishing latitude to do stupid shit within
their borders with very little consequence.

- Matt

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