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by lxwang 4573 days ago
And what of it? The internet and cheap worldwide shipping/travel have made it easy to work around a lot of laws whose jurisdiction is limited by geography. A system where you can use gmail, google+, youtube, etc and be subject to Google "law" or use outlook.com, bing, etc and be subject to Microsoft "law" seems like the natural place to go from here. Google is even investing in walking robots and self-driving cars to use for enforcement already :D
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Yep. When peoples' actions effortlessly cross national boundaries. laws that don't cross national boundaries quickly become irrelevant. First e-feudalism, then who knows what?
We're definitely entering e-feudalism. We need an e-revolution into e-democracy, whatever that looks like.

Probably select acceptance into online communities, while increasingly irrelevant nations worry about increasingly irrelevant tax revenue and your increasingly irrelevant physical location.