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by mnm1 2649 days ago
> If that maintainer of that site is serving content to New Zealand, that it seems reasonable that he should be beholden to NZ laws.

So should be also be beholden to Chinese, Saudi Arabian, Russian, North Korean, and other governments' laws for simply having a website? That's beyond absurd and by that line of reasoning, most website operators should be jailed in some country or other. This is one of the most absurd arguments I've ever read. Luckily, it has no legal basis. Hopefully it never will.

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see my reply to the sibling comment. I would also ask you to be charitable in your reading of my words.