In a chat with the historian Yuval Noah Harari, Zuckerberg says Facebook will not comply with the laws of authoritarian countries requiring local data centers (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
In a chat with the historian Yuval Noah Harari, Zuckerberg says Facebook will not comply with the laws of authoritarian countries requiring local data centers  —  If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations which can then steal …