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Suppose USGOV takes over Facebook, then is it bound by 1A for all users? Or just those in US jurisdictions? You'd surely need it to be taken over by a supra-na
by zimpenfish 4y ago
Suppose USGOV takes over Facebook, then is it bound by 1A for all users? Or just those in US jurisdictions?
You'd surely need it to be taken over by a supra-national body like the UN, given it has a supra-national user base.
- philipov 4y agoWe could do a Bell Labs and force each nation's Facebook to be spun off into its own entity, with a federated interop protocol to connect them together. I have no delusions that such a thing would ever be allowed to happen, though.
- kamarg 4y agoPretty sure the Supreme Court has ruled that only US citizens, regardless of jurisdiction, are afforded rights laid out in the Constitution.
- gruez 4y agoNot exactly. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/904/aliens https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/904/aliens