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This is more like the UK fining Parisian bars that courier alcohol to under-18s in the UK.
by ceejayoz 8mo ago
This is more like the UK fining Parisian bars that courier alcohol to under-18s in the UK.
- shaky-carrousel 8mo agoWhich is equally absurd.
- OJFord 8mo agoNo it isn't? Real example is Amazon, a US company that sells alcohol in the UK, and is required to check age on order & delivery.
- qup 8mo agoAmazon is an international corporation with UK-incorporated entities.
- OJFord 8mo agoThat's true but not relevant to the spirit of the point.
- ronsor 8mo agoIt is relevant. There's a material difference between shipping material overseas and shipping it (and handling it) within the destination country. If someone mails $ProhibitedItem at a USPS to the UK, then it's the job of local UK police and/or customs to reject the parcel if it is prohibited. It's the UK's problem, de facto if not de jure, because the sender is out of reach. If someone with a UK subsidiary and local processing center mails $ProhibitedItem to their center and delivers it to someone in the UK, then that's more than the UK's problem.
- jimnotgym 8mo agoAnd on an electronic delivery, is a great firewall the equivalent of customs? And therfore the only way to enforce sovereignty?
- echoangle 8mo agoPractically, yes.
- erentz 8mo agoIf that were true why is everyone so irritated by this? Just ignore it in that case. But for those people that may want to become subject to British jurisdiction in future or do other business there in future, they will take requests from Ofcom seriously.
- testing22321 8mo agoAbsolutely yes. If a government thinks there is stuff for sale its citizens should not be allowed to buy, they don’t stop county x making it or selling it. They block the thing from entering their country. If the government thinks there are ones and zeros on the internet it’s citizens should not be allowed to see, they should block them from entering the country.
- shaky-carrousel 8mo agoNo, real example is a British citizen picking up an American AM radio station that happens to broadcast things forbidden by the UK law, and the UK fining such radio station.
- shrubble 8mo agoIt’s a lot more like banning the importation of books and newspapers that the government doesn’t agree with…
- tsukikage 8mo agoMore like the UK fining US porn publishers for not stopping British kids searching through the hedges in their street
- jjgreen 8mo agoHedge-porn, I remember hedge-porn ...
- strideashort 8mo agoNot exactly. It’s like fining Parisian bars to hand over alcohol to couriers without checking to whom couriers will deliver it. Couriers = all involved network providers.
- erentz 8mo agoThe Parisian bars are the ones writing the address on the package not the courier.
- strideashort 8mo agoWhen DoorDash or whatever courier comes to a restaurant, they pick up “order number”. That order number is in essence just private IP. Courier translates it to address=public ip. It follows that the restaurant writes the address on every delivery. Do they ID each recipient?
- erentz 8mo agoIn the original example the Parisian bars sells and sends the alcohol. You’ve modified that to introduce a proxy, DoorDash, that now sells and sends the alcohol. If DoorDash sells it they’re the ones in trouble in your example.