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Why would an American website pay fines because of the laws of a random country?
If you offer a service in a country you are subject to their laws.
My website is my website. You visit my website, my website does not visit you. My website is public, you choose to enter it. You visit my website through your infrastructure to get to my infrastructure. My infrastructure is publicly available to you, should you be able to access it.
The governing body of your (second person, not you specifically) infrastructure (the UK government) chooses to impose rules on my actions. Their threat is "we'll stop letting people in our infrastructure from being able to reach your infrastructure."
That is extortion, not working in the public's favor. The UK government is saying they'll block all roads from your house that lead to my website outside of the UK. My website is overseas, brother. The UK is blocking all the ports so you can't sail here. I don't "offer services" to you in the UK, I just don't prevent people from the UK from trying to reach my island. Nothing about my services requires the UK infrastructure. My services keep operating whether the UK government exists or not. How do they have any right over my infrastructure in this scenario?
If this is about ads, the UK has all the right to remove my ads from their country. That is within their right. Anything about blocking people from the UK is within their right, sure, but that's not my problem lol. Sorry you have a shit government lol
I'm not sure I like the idea that you're "offering a service" in a country simply by being a data service that can accessed from it.
Someone from Australia can call me and we can chat. It doesn't mean I or my phone carrier are offering a service in Australia.
You're right, but that also means your service can get blocked in said country. And that's what they don't want, so they're trying to fight it from home.
What does that mean? Arent most sites available everywhere by default?
No, you can definitely block entire countries.