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andybak ◴[] No.45045278[source]
Between this and the UK Online Safety Bill, how are people meant to keep track?

Launch a small website and commit a felony in 7 states and 13 countries.

I wouldn't have known about the Mississippi bill unless I'd read this. How are we have to know?

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zaptheimpaler ◴[] No.45045350[source]
Any physical business has to deal with 100s of regulations too, it just means the same culture of making it extremely difficult and expensive to do anything at all is now coming to the online world as well, bit by bit.
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trymas ◴[] No.45049135[source]
If you have a restaurant in Italy and some 18 year old from Mississippi orders a glass of wine - you can happily and lawfully serve it.

You don’t need to know all the laws of Mississippi to serve such customer, or any laws from anywhere else other than Italy.

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wickedsight ◴[] No.45049472[source]
Yes, because that customer is also in Italy, so Italian law also applies to them.

With the internet it's a lot less clear cut. The user is requesting data from Italy, maybe, but is located in another jurisdiction. Add Cloudflare and the data might even be served from the US by a US company you asked to serve your illegal data.

It's becoming a shit show and is breaking up the global internet.

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1. fc417fc802 ◴[] No.45056289[source]
User or customer? That's quite a difference. When I pay to have goods shipped there's an expectation of regulation that doesn't exist when I chat with someone on the phone. (Admittedly all the free product dumping by tech companies blurs the line.)

The current legal reality is a shitshow but I don't think that's inherent to the situation itself. gTLDs and foreign hosting services certainly complicate things, but then so does choosing to (physically) import supplies from abroad. I'm not convinced there's a real issue there at least in theory.

I think that a single "common carrier" type treaty unambiguously placing all burden on the speaker and absolving any liability arising from jurisdictional differences would likely fix 90% of the current issues. If I visit a foreign run site and lie about my country of residence in order to access material that isn't legal where I reside the only liable party in that scenario should be me.