| From: | Mike & Linda Frankl mlfrankl@***.com |
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| Subject: | Question about Corp Extraterritoriality (sp?) |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:10:55 -0400 |
> Being a PoliSci major this has been bugging me for a while. Do Corps
> just get extraterritoriality whenever they set up a facility or do
> they have to get it granted to them by the host country? For
> instance, the UN building in New York was granted to the UN by the USA
> as an territory of the UN, but the US can revoke that. Could UCAS
> *legally* revoke a MegaCorps rights of extraterritoriality? I know
> that it was done, sort of, in RA:S, but that was based on the claim
> that the threat was to all of Seattle, I'm asking does UCAS have the
> legal right in SR to just declare that it has revoked
> extraterritoriality to a certain or all corps?
IIRC, if a corp wishes to open in Aztlan they have to open a branch, but the
Aztlan government still has to have controlling stock in the branch (or was
it in Tir na Nog'). So I guess the government does have some say in the
matter (though in Aztlan there really isn't a difference).
I think in the case with the UCAS, the country is so dependant on business
(capitalism) that pissing off the corporations could have very bad side
effects from an economic POV. Though corp competition keeps that somewhat in
check. If the UCAS were to pass a law that went against all corporations
then the corps could really destabilize the country in retaliation and
possibly wind up with more power in the UCAS then they originally had.
;)
Smilin' Jack
