Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:49:13 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Fabian Svara wrote:
> Does all that actually mean that pages on the net which are > generally accessible are subject to all the world's laws? That > would actually make sense (as the net itself is ubiquitious), > but is of course impossible...
Usually you only get arrested when you travel to the country in question (eg. Dmitry Skylarov or people criticising the chinese government), but sometimes a country manages to get somebody extradited for things which are put on a website (eg. Germany convicted an Australian for putting neo-nazi stuff on his website).
Both the laws themselves and the legal precedents are extremely unpredictable, the most sensible thing seems to be to just not publish things to the country where they are outlawed by putting some access control in front of the goodies ;)
regards,
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