Hacker News Reader

What principle? Facebook is in Canada. They have offices in Canada. They hire citizens. They sell products to citizens, and they are selling citizens as products.

Facebook is already subject to Canada's laws, and they should continue following them if they want to continue being subject to those laws.

View on HN

So? Maybe canada's laws say they can compel Zuck to show up, but America's certainly don't. Those are the ones that matter, as Facebook is based in America and Zuck is currently in America.

Of course. Facebook should feel free to ignore this subpoena. In exchange, Canada should feel free to bar Facebook from doing business in their country.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com