Germany doesn't have a tyrannical government, so I'd say "different". I'd also say, if you're making a profit youre a commercial entity so maybe you should abi

Germany doesn't have a tyrannical government, so I'd say "different". I'd also say, if you're making a profit youre a commercial entity so maybe you should abide by (hypothetical) chinese law. If you're engaged in legitimate free speech (etc) activities, be a non profit and so wriggle out of my definition above :). But you can't have the best of both worlds, at least not in my opinion... Let me ask you though: would you be happy for a foreign site to provide services illegal in the US to US residents and say "well thats life?". If there were a country that permitted CP would it be "their country, their rules?" even if it was having an impact domestically? The US is very aggressive about going after people abroad how brake US law, even ones that aren't in the US (Assange, Kim Dotcom, etc). Why shouldn't Germany have the same right? I'd like a one-size fits all approach, or for one country to be absolutely and undeniably correct in their exact legislation of free speech. But no one is. Until then, it's not unreasonable for otherwise reasonable, democratic, countries to say "what you put on the web for everyone, us everyone's concern". This is always the issue with free speech sadly.