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I know the OSA is bad, but this libertarian attitude American tech has of we can operate anywhere in the world and not care about its laws because we're American is genuinely quire harmful.
I honestly have pretty mixed feelings on the OSA, I think government regulation of social media is actually pretty necessary as these sites have shown they can't or won't regulate themselves. But the OSA is pretty clearly not about user safety, the Times even quotes the government as saying:
I'd rather if they just spat it out that we should take back domestic control over social media. And made a law surrounding that.
Honestly wouldn't mind if they banned large foreign social media platforms in exchange for domestic ones.
People constantly whine about immigration and mohammed down the road ruining their culture. The real risk to our culture is people consuming american mass media and falling to their machines.
Philosophically I have trouble understanding how law has jurisdiction over anything digital.
If I encrypt a stream of zeros and ones and spread that around various geographical locations, why should the law care?
(BTW, I believe there is a line somewhere, I just want help finding it. I'm not convinced the current line is correct)
The law regulates where your customers/users are, not where you are.
If you run a website hosted in Zanzibar then your server may be subject to Tanzanian law. But if you want people from the UK to access your website, it also needs to comply with relevant UK law. If you don't, the government could order ISPs to block access for UK users.
If we're talking about some no-name blog then you probably don't care about this. But if you're running an e-commerce site or you're monetizing clicks from UK users via advertising then having a large market cut off from you might hurt your bottom line.
You are taking the government's position without consideration.
In my example the numbers I have encoded don't care where they live or who sees them.
Let's take any onion website as an example. We don't know where it lives. It doesn't know who is accessing it. How can any law be applied to anything .onion ?