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1. naderm+Df1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 19:01:33
>>ANewbu+(OP)
The UK has been doing this sort of stuff for at least a decade. For example they have the PIPCU which under the guise of copyright threatens 10 years in prison for sites not even in their jurisdiction.

https://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-launch-campaign-to-shut-d...

And with that, they have at the least gotten registrars not located in their jurisdicrion to transfer domains

https://easydns.com/blog/2013/10/08/whatever-happened-to-due...

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2. kimixa+rD1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 20:59:40
>>naderm+Df1
The US has always claimed jurisdiction on foreign-hosted but US-accessible content.

Do people forget the owner of Megaupload being extradited? In many ways this is just catching up to the current US state.

And there's a lot of confusion here between basic consumer data protection laws and (IMHO massively overreaching) "Online Safety" laws. This isn't Imgur making a stand for free speech, this is Imgur wanting to track and sell user data - to which minors cannot consent. Putting on my tinfoil hat you could argue that many of these companies are trying to encourage this misunderstanding intentionally.

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3. jobs_t+CH1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 21:25:05
>>kimixa+rD1
The notion that a 17 year old cannot consent to user tracking is absurd
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4. fao_+uO1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 22:11:48
>>jobs_t+CH1
No, what is absurd is everyone having their data tracked and sold, including minors.
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5. hsbaua+5P1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 22:16:30
>>fao_+uO1
And the notion that if you reject all tracking, these scummy companies will not actually track you
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