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I'll admit, I haven't read the entire article - but the obvious question to me - using your example of HN - what authority does the UK have over a website hoste
by ejb999 4y ago
I'll admit, I haven't read the entire article - but the obvious question to me - using your example of HN - what authority does the UK have over a website hosted in another country at all? They can pass all the rules they want, but how do they propose to enforce them on a company that does not operate in the UK?
If that was possible, wouldn't CCP or Russia be ordering websites all over the world to shutdown to control information they don't like be visible?
- Digit-Al 4y agoOur government can't enforce rules on foreign owned websites, but they can force ISP's to block them.
- jacooper 4y agoWhich is fine, the UK users and economy will be the one losing really.
- voxic11 4y agoBut hackernews does operate in the UK. I have accessed it from there before.
- arlcode 4y agoThe UK government can't influence the US government (or any foreign government at all) to enforce their laws. So companies can choose to comply or not. You and I are probably violating several (severely) punished laws from around the world every day but the respective authorities can't do anything about it.