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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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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…

So like, California voters can just pass a proposition to force the suspension of a dozen conservative domains, for example? Or even better, Rhode Island could?

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

#322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The GDPR doesn't try to remove anything from the global internet. You're free to not serve your site in the EU. Texas is free to block sites in Texas. But Texas trying to remove the ability of Europeans to access European websites is a completely different matter.

"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.

The difference would be, presumably, international trade agreements made at the federal level.

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

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Definitely bad overall and opposed to the principle by which this is being done, but I am at least glad it happened to motherless. The last I saw of that site it had terrible moderation and hosted quite a bit of dubious material.

So it's bad but you're okay with it because it's being done to someone you don't like.. This is exactly how we lose all our rights.

> bad overall

> opposed to the principle

I'm... okay with it? Where do I say this.

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