One might be thinking that they are immune to the laws of another country online but that is not always the case. If you break the law in another country online, like Gary McKinnon, who hacked numerous US Government systems to look for evidence of UFO cover-ups, you might have to deal with extradition.
In Gary’s case, the US attempts to get him extradited failed. Julian Assange is also dealing with a similar set of circumstances for leaking government documents.
But what if its not criminal? There are civil cases all the time against corporations who are based in the United States. Apple was forced by the European Union to adopt USB-C for its iPhones because the lightning cable was seen as anti competitive. The EU won the charger war.
Back in 2010, the EU forced Microsoft to offer something called a Browser Ballot because of Microsoft’s monopoly power on the browser market.
These are both American Corporations who wanted to continue sell products to the European market. They could have easily refused these changes but they would have had to stop selling products in Europe.
Now we come back to Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“CHRT”). The Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in federally regulated Services and Employment.
Federally regulated services include telecommunications, which are anything that is on the Internet.