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Old Aug 4, 2004, 09:17 am   #5 (permalink) (top)
Comrade
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I remember that Ebay or some site like that was selling Nazi antiques, and since that stuff is illegal in France but the French could still go online and see it, a French judge said that Ebay (if that's what it was) had to remove it. An American judge said, "Um, the servers are in America, you have no jurisdiction."

The "internet" is not an amorphous thing, you can have jurisdiction over it, because the internet is based off servers and computers (physical things).

Your proposed law is really worthless. You can claim jurisdiction over servers if they are in your area of jurisdiction, and that makes sense, it is essentially just like TV or radio or anything else, and Free Speech is the check on the government messing with people's webspace.


Oh, it's really too bad, isn't it?
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Hahaha, that's funny. Liberals are so silly!
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