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At what point will non-US websites just start blocking US-based traffic all together? I suppose one day in the future the US will be like an island on the inter
by jneal 15y ago
At what point will non-US websites just start blocking US-based traffic all together? I suppose one day in the future the US will be like an island on the internet - disconnected from other country's websites due to situations like this.
- tomjen3 15y agoThere is too much money involved it that.
- k-mcgrady 15y agoThat won't always be the case as more and more people around the world come online. If the US continues on a SOPA/ACTA/PIPA path I could see some internet companies blocking them in the same way that a lot of companies don't do business in China.
- rickmb 15y agoI doubt that. The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic. And I'm not talking minor sites either.
- chimeracoder 15y ago> The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic. Yes, but US websites comprise the vast majority of top websites on the Internet....
- mike-cardwell 15y ago"The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic." Also: The vast majority of non-US websites have very little to gain from blocking US traffic
- grecy 15y ago> Also: The vast majority of non-US websites have very little to gain from blocking US traffic That's not true at all. Non-US websites will gain the ability to not have to follow US law, and not risk being extradited for doing so.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoWrong. The vast majority of websites don't break US law. Not because they went out of their way to avoid it, but because they simply don't. These sites don't have anything to gain by blocking the US. Ergo, quite clearly, the vast majority of non-US websites have nothing to gain from blocking US traffic. Nothing at all.