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Every time I bring up on HN that enforcing national (or regional) law on any extranational company that sends packets to your country will inevitably result in
by wyager 5y ago
Every time I bring up on HN that enforcing national (or regional) law on any extranational company that sends packets to your country will inevitably result in the internet being siloed into legal regions, I get super angry responses. HN seems to love the idea of regulating, taxing, etc. any company that communicates over the internet with people in their country (I’ve even seen packets compared to physical packages subject to customs), but hates to recognize the logical conclusions of that.
- TheBill 5y agoIf you pay attention to the time those comments come out you'll see a specific pattern around european users coffee/lunch/evening times.
- csunbird 5y agoNo, the solution is not to silo internet into legal regions, the solution is to people in the USA to also lobby for stronger data protection laws. When any server in USA soil can be changed into a backdoor, accompanied with a gag order on disclosure, I certainly do not want all my egress traffic routed into any computer in USA.