alt Hacker NewsSo a state (or municipality or anyone capable of making laws) has the ability to say, "You don't meet our local laws, take down your URL" now?
This is going to be a real problem when states start nuking whole parts of the internet from orbit. A state has a law against conversion therapy and starts to remove sites with that? A state has a law against trans people? Or abortion? Or medical misinformation? Suddenly we just start purging sites back and forth?
Battlegrounds end up as torn up, muddy, desolate places. Turning the domain registry into a battleground is a bad idea. Over the long term, no one wins if we choose to fight there.
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I thought this was always the case?
But what people do instead is to disable access for people from that specific state.
In the US, if you used a US domain or registrar, this is possible. If you are Dutch and registered a .nl domain with a Dutch registrar, this is not possible.
I mean the US works like this, it isn't suprising a US state also does.
If someone from the US does something illegal on your site (which is legal in your country), depending on how much they want you will end up in a US prison.
Before the US decided that betting online was OK, betting sites had travel advisories for their employees not to travel to the US.
This is a pretty clear violation of the First Amendment, but the current SCOTUS doesn't care about the Constitution.
Multiple conservative SCOTUS justices openly admit to taking bribes from parties with cases before them.
It seems like it's pretty easy to comply. Pornhub and others don't have any problems complying with TX.
No. If a site doesn't want to comply with the state, they can geoblock. That's what pornhub does.