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by JoshTriplett 232 days ago
The entire point of this is that the jurisdictional argument is unclear. As abhorrent as Clearview's business is, businesses should only be subject to the jurisdictions they actually reside in or have employees in or otherwise have a legal nexus in. Otherwise, you end up in a world in which someone says "because citizens of country X can remotely access your website, you are subject to the laws of X", for every single X in the world.

If a country wants to control what its citizens access it can put up its own firewall and deal with the backlash from its own citizens. Let's not help move towards per-country internets.