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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 inigyou »

what wrote: post #64
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.…

> it operates in Texas if it is serving Texas users Nonsense. There is no reliable way to not serve your content to people in Texas. If anything, Texas should compel ISPs to not serve it to their Texas customers.

That's the point. Texas will argue that every website operates in Texas so they get to take down every website.

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

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Post by calvinmorrison »

walrus01 wrote: post #59
fwip wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to keep the domain name you got from a TLD that they control, yes. Or did you mean, like, morally?

But does a US State control a TLD, really? Is that even something that's within the legitimate legal power of an individual state? Previous .com seizures have been done at the federal court level. The federal government reserves the authority to regulate all inter-state commerce. The entire history of how the .com TLD is run by Verisign is federal government related. Doing this at the state court level is as nonsensi…

Any state can issue a warrant and extradite Americans from any other state. Something to do with catching runaway slaves. It's gonna catch up with us when California starts charging me with a crime for something about age verification or when Texas tries to extradite abortionists

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

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Post by jasonfarnon »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #106
jasonfarnon wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"But Texas trying to remove the ability of (for instance) Europeans to access websites is a completely different matter." I fail to see the difference in principle from the federal government doing this for copyright violations.

There is no difference in principle. That is equally unacceptable. There is a difference in kind, because it becomes impossible for the global internet to exist if thousands of local jurisdictions are being given their way, with conflicting local legislation resulting in global takedown when it is impossible to comply with two different jurisdictions. So this is noteworthy as an escalation of an already existing prob…

"That we should embrace the China/Russia model and give not only every country but also every state/province/city its own Great Firewall?"

I actually don't have much of an opinion about what it should be, I was only discussing this from a descriptive legal standpoint. My guess is what will happen is companies will voluntarily target their sites to different regions and different legal regimes (like many big US sites do for their foreign versions, or gambling sites do here). That's kind of what's happening here, Verisign is complying probably so they can still have the TX market.

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

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Post by walrus01 »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #142
walrus01 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But does a US State control a TLD, really? Is that even something that's within the legitimate legal power of an individual state? Previous .com seizures have been done at the federal court level. The federal government reserves the authority to regulate all inter-state commerce. The entire history of how the .com TLD is run by Verisign is federal government related. Doing this at the state court level is as nonsensi…

Any state can issue a warrant and extradite Americans from any other state. Something to do with catching runaway slaves. It's gonna catch up with us when California starts charging me with a crime for something about age verification or when Texas tries to extradite abortionists

Individual states have already been attempting to extradite people from other states for the crime of mailing early term abortion medication across state lines, for example:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=US+state+...

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

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Post by rootsudo »

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #84
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…

> 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. Two things of note regarding this. First, note the office of origin: Texas Attorney General, which is currently occupied by Ken Paxton who is running for a tightly contested seat in the US Senate. Second, a state court does not have jurisd…

And third, there was a default judgement.

I wonder what was the value of the domain on the open market, its quite a famous domain and probably had high lead generation..

But I agree with the parent comment.

This is so much state overstepping bounds and irony aside, so much for independence and rights by a state that proclaims personal agency comes first.

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

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Post by otterley »

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #84
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…

> 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. Two things of note regarding this. First, note the office of origin: Texas Attorney General, which is currently occupied by Ken Paxton who is running for a tightly contested seat in the US Senate. Second, a state court does not have jurisd…

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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 »

rootsudo wrote: post #146
AdieuToLogic wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Two things of note regarding this. First, note the office of origin: Texas Attorney General, which is currently occupied by Ken Paxton who is running for a tightly contested seat in the US Senate. Second, a state court does not have jurisd…

And third, there was a default judgement. I wonder what was the value of the domain on the open market, its quite a famous domain and probably had high lead generation.. But I agree with the parent comment. This is so much state overstepping bounds and irony aside, so much for independence and rights by a state that proclaims personal agency comes first.

Personal agency comes first in Texas only as long as you're a white heterosexual christian man with conservative political beliefs.
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