CNN.com - Internet extends long arm of the law - July 22, 2002. Italian police shut down web sites hosted in America. This shitfight has been brewing for years - who has jurisdiction? Whose laws apply? Does one nation have any right to shut down communications coming out of another nation? Who the hell has any real rights left anyway?
I've been scoffed at for posing the hypothetical: What if you posted something innocent on your locally-hosted website which was a deadly insult, an offense legally punishable by death, in another country you've never even heard of? If you've published something which is legal in the place you live; does someone from another place have any right to take action under their laws?
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