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Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by walrus01 »

jasonfarnon wrote: post #66
walrus01 wrote: post #49

The idea that a state court in one particular state can enforce such an absurd law against a company that likely has no business operations or servers in the state is ridiculous. I don't care if you like the porn site in question or not, or condone or endorse its content. This is a slippery slope towards every regional tinpot dictator legislature attempting to censor the internet by having an entity's domain name rev…

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It is known to have servers, offices, employees, bank accounts, business licenses in texas?

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by TylerE »

what wrote: post #19
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign (Under "Controversies".) > In March 2012, the U.S. government declared that it has the right to seize domains ending in .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .name, and .org if the companies administering the domains are based in the U.S. The U.S. government can seize the domains ending in .com, .net, .cc, .tv, and .name by serving a court-order on Verisign, which manages those domains.

Texas isn’t the US government?

No more than the government of France is the EU government.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by inigyou »

wolpoli wrote: post #60

Honest question: what is the ultimate end game if at some point a court in another country orders a domain be reinstated? Do we end up with a domain registration system per country?

We literally already have one of those. Each country has a .XX TLD, and all other TLDs are for the USA.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by monksy »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4
BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I don’t understand - was this site or company based in Texas? Otherwise the general idea seems absurd that an individual state could freeze a domain impacting for the whole Internet… (EDIT: I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.)

It operates in Texas if it is serving Texas users. > Kick Online, which openly describes itself as a “moral free” company, ignored the lawsuit and refused to comply with the court’s order. It continued publishing and distributing harmful sexual material that was accessible to minors in Texas. This is the same website with a forum with millions of users trading information on how to assault their partner. https://www.…

Today I learned that a foreign government operates in Texas.

I didn't know that Texas is supporting and promoting the North Korean government: http://naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/first

I wonder why they aren't being called out for anti-American terrorist groups.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by gnabgib »

antonvs wrote: post #56
comrade1234 wrote: post #31

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It's not confusing and you should understand what's happening for your own safety. This has been happening for a couple of decades internationally and now with USA states. This result means that Texas can take various means to block motherless. But more importantly no motherless employees should travel to Texas without risk of arrest. Same for abc/youtube/facebook employess traveling to India. You should be aware of…

Even people with mothers shouldn't travel to Texas.

> Even people with mothers shouldn't travel to Texas.

You know real, friendly, generous humans live in Texas, right?

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by monksy »

TylerE wrote: post #72
what wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Texas isn’t the US government?

No more than the government of France is the EU government.

It's more like the government of Hungry or Bulgaria in the EU analogy.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by inigyou »

msftgreed wrote: post #34

So a state (or municipality or anyone capable of making laws) has the ability to say, "You don't meet our local laws, take down your URL" now? This is going to be a real problem when states start nuking whole parts of the internet from orbit. A state has a law against conversion therapy and starts to remove sites with that? A state has a law against trans people? Or abortion? Or medical misinformation? Suddenly we ju…

In the US, if you used a US domain or registrar, this is possible. If you are Dutch and registered a .nl domain with a Dutch registrar, this is not possible.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by throwawaypath »

pixl97 wrote: post #9
toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It operates in Texas if it is serving Texas users. > Kick Online, which openly describes itself as a “moral free” company, ignored the lawsuit and refused to comply with the court’s order. It continued publishing and distributing harmful sexual material that was accessible to minors in Texas. This is the same website with a forum with millions of users trading information on how to assault their partner. https://www.…

All fun and games till religions get in battles and shut down websites talking about gods and beliefs they don't like.

>religions get in battles and shut down websites talking about gods and beliefs they don't like.

Leftists and trans activists attempting to shut down Kiwifarms comes to mind.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by monksy »

walrus01 wrote: post #71
jasonfarnon wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It is known to have servers, offices, employees, bank accounts, business licenses in texas?

Motherless.xxx's tracepath is: https://ipinfo.io/185.107.81.233

Hosting out of the netherlands. Kick their owners are globally headquarted in Australia, their US operations are out of SFO, CA.

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walrus01 wrote: post #50
rblatz wrote: post #11

Default judgement, absolutely meaningless at this point as to how a court would rule against a plaintiff that actually showed up, respected the court’s authority, and defended itself.

Why should a Netherlands based company that publishes content on the internet entirely outside of this state's borders and jurisdiction be required to show up or respect its authority? By this logic if I'm sued in Turkey for publishing content on my web server hosted in California insulting Erdogan, I should have to go show up and defend myself in some kangaroo court.

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