remarkably, these are not very basic questions, and the answers are not the same for hundreds of years since this is electronic records that cross international boundaries
Certainly principles of international jurisdiction are well settled and fairly consistent. In that sense the comment was correct.
However, you are also correct that legal principles around information collection and transmission are both new and not well settled.
This feels like one of those hn discussions where everyone will end up talking past each other because of terminology failure.
I mean if you were shit talking France when living in England a few hundred years back you're likely to get put on the enemies of France list, even if your pages were for consumption in England. Now if you never left England there wouldn't be much to worry about, unless they suddenly became friends and decided to export your corpse for goodwill.
This feels like one of those hn discussions where everyone will end up talking past each other because of terminology failure.