Re: Newsgrouper Update

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> posted:

 
  If it's just to whom the service is offered, then all other News
servers/services would also be bound by this new UK law, i.e.
for example News.Individual.NET in Germany, Eternal September in
<wherever>, etc..

Indeed, this kind of extraterritorial jurisdiction is exactly what
the UK Online Safety Act claims.  Whether this can be enforced in
practice is another matter.

But this approach would not appear to scale very well.  What happens when
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Afghanistan, Trump's USA even,
also want to restrict what their citizens should have access to, based
on their conception of legitimacy, morality, etc. ?

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