Either laws in other countries matter in yours (regardless of how different they are from your own) or they don't.
Picking and choosing which country's laws you do or don't want to consider yourself bound to on moral grounds is not fundamentally very different from picking which of your own country's laws you do or don't want to consider yourself bound to on moral grounds.
if they do business in those jurisdictions, yes, of course.
if a new york cpa does business in ohio they need to be licensed in ohio and follow ohio laws. even if their firm and majority of work is based in new york.
i’m really surprised people find this confusing.
If I were ever to go to North Korea their government could of course arrest me for insulting Kim Jong Un. What they could not do, and absolutely should not be able to do, is have my local police in the US arrest me for doing the same at home. Yes, even if I do it on the internet where a citizen of North Korea might theoretically see, or make use of content I acquired over the internet that originated in that country.
If a country wants to control what its citizens access it can put up its own firewall and deal with the backlash from its own citizens. Let's not help move towards per-country internets.
Are these EU citizens operating/running businesses in the above countries?
Are they even inside the above countries?
How are you even comparing a company which operates in the EU to an EU citizen who is residing in the EU?