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Or what? What is Norway gonna do? Force ISPs to blackhole DNS to Meta services?

What do you mean? They will pay the fine or the NO courts will extract them; Meta has legal entities with bank presence to charge for ads and (I assume) pay employees in NO.

Exactly. As Meta certainly wants to sell ads to Norwegian companies, this is inevitable.

What if they only accepts payments to their out of Norway bank accounts

Ultimately they go to any friendly country where Meta does have an account and say to a local court "Meta broke our laws, here's the court ordered fine, make them pay up."

This kind of thing, even though the details are different, is also why Kim Dotcom got arrested for violating US law despite not being in the US.

True, although the ability of the US to impose its will on New Zealand is probably much higher than the ability of Norway to impose its will on the US.

Doesn't need to be the USA directly, it could be anywhere in europe where Meta has assets.

I'm also not sure if the courts in the US default to cooperating in such situations; I seem to remember something about Congress passing a law saying that Americans didn't need to pay fines for (libel?) imposed by (UK courts?) or something like that, suggesting that such was the default before then.

They will get less business

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