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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. lokar+tV1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 22:58:35
>>jobs_t+CH1
Why is it absurd?

IMO, the law should establish some parental rights over their children, I don't think this is controversial. You can argue with what the limits of the rights are, how they interact with the rights of the child, and how that changes as the child ages, but the basic ideas is pretty sound.

And then given that, it is the role of an elected government to determine all these factors, subject to review of the courts. That all seems to be working here.

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