Here's a related but slightly different example. In 2005, Google hired Microsoft VP Dr Kai-Fu Lee to run Google China. Microsoft went to a US court and the US rules on "non compete" applied on an employee running a Google branch outside the US. Google of course argued jurisdiction and lost.
You lost me there. I don't see any connection there to "net neutrality", the internet, the FCC, etc. As far as I can tell, that seems to be a matter of labour contracts and so forth.
It is about US law/rules applying to US company operations/branches outside the US. It means Verizon and Google may have to adhere to the FCC rules in Kenya. Assuming both companies have local presence.
I am aware of the specific matter that you refer to. I am not aware of any connection to the FCC or anything of the sort. As far as I can tell, the matter was a largely a straightforward "labour-contract dispute", in the context the man's "non-compete" agreements. A "labour dispute" between two US companies, filed in a USA court. Whether the man was going to work in Timbukti or the Moon would, to my mind, not have been relevant.
As far as a place like Kenya goes, we need not argue in the abstract. Kenya has its own regulatory Communications Authority, and my guess those of its rules are the ones that Google and Verizon have to adhere to are in mostly in technical matters. I have looked at what they do, and I am cannot see how they a US company operating in Kenya would be bound by any FCC regulations. Perhaps you have some specifics in mind?
