>As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. Fox News is an Australian product built to flood the US with far-right, pro-business outrag

>As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. Fox News is an Australian product built to flood the US with far-right, pro-business outrage. We'll get out of your lane once you get out of ours. All kidding aside, describing these sorts of things in terms of national influence is extremely unproductive. New Zealand wouldn't be turning itself into a pro-commercial-pirate haven or anticopyright haven but for the influence of the US[1]. The question regarding extradition is not "should we consider what Kim Dotcom did to be a crime[0]" but "do we abduct him to another jurisdiction to face trial." It's bikeshedding over the color of the wood on the electric chair. [0] In general, extradition treaties only apply for acts that are crimes in both jurisdictions. [1] Even China's pro-copyright, they just don't want to pay America for any of it. If they were anti-copyright they'd be freely sharing all the "IP" they keep stealing.