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by newbusox 5242 days ago
Yes, but this has been happening for years, and in many other countries. There are instances from 10+ years ago of places like Germany and France trying to and ultimately succeeding in banning the auction of Nazi memorabilia from Yahoo and etc. because these auctions violated domestic law.

The scary thing is what might happen if companies who are forced to censor their content become unwilling or actually unable to censor the content to the extent required by whatever domestic law. In that case, we wouldn't even need some sort of overarching international law to "control" the internet because the most restrictive law any given nation puts in place will be the controlling law. This has already happened in all manners of international law, where a given country, often the US, has the most restrictive law that all other countries and therefore de facto obligated to follow.