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> People hosting news sites have often had to geofence to prevent UK residents from accessing their site if they are hosting any kind of reporting of UK court cases that are under embargo or matters that are subject to one of the UK's famous "Super injunctions" [2]

…and if the site has no UK assets, how enforceable is the injunction?

>>BeFlat+(OP)
I mean, in the case of the US, you board a plane in country X going to country Z, it flies over country Y which is friends with the US. The US has country Y land the plane and has the plane boarded by armed men that drag you off kicking and screaming where you are put in a cage and then shipped to the US.

>>pixl97+74
Iirc this happened to a Russian man who operated an online gambling site when he went on vacation to the Caribbean. The plane he was on had an unscheduled landing in Florida for a mechanical issue and surprise, surprise, the FBI were waiting there to arrest him!

>>pixl97+74
Or worse, shipped to Guantanamo Bay/Bagram Prison, where the US can do whatever they want even to US citizens because they're no longer in US jurisdiction.

>>morkal+Wx
countries do it all the time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incide...