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> but they still need to restrict access to prevent US people from accessing the service or they will be breaching the US's gambling laws. Why not just avoid t
by lurk2 1y ago
> but they still need to restrict access to prevent US people from accessing the service or they will be breaching the US's gambling laws.
Why not just avoid travel to the US?
- arlcode 1y agoThe US has a huge reach in the western (and global) world and can impact you in a lot of creative and legal ways (e.g. prevent Google / Apple / Microsoft from offering services to you).
- lurk2 1y agoI remember this was an issue for The Pirate Bay but so far as I remember they were forced to go through the Swedish court system. It’s been ages since I read about it though so I might be missing something.
- agedclock 1y agoThere is a huge number of countries that will comply with the US. All of Western Europe, a good portion of Asia and the Pacific and plenty of other places that I've forgotten about. If you are wanted in the Western world and the US wants you, you are likely to be got.
- michaelt 1y agoYes, you can do that. The thing is, that'll apply to all your employees, no matter how junior. And it also extends to countries with extradition treaties to the US; holiday in the the Dominican Republic? You can be arrested and extradited to the US (Gary Kaplan). And of course if you change planes in the US (David Carruthers)? Arrested. Only broke the laws of one US state, and you change planes in another? Arrested (Peter Dicks). Although perhaps the real lesson there is to be better at avoiding the US.