Yes. The problem is that, once the ability exists to nuke whatever you consider to be illegal, someone else will use it to nuke stuff that you like.

If every country could impose its standards on the Internet, there'd be no Internet. It's only worked so far because the US has strong free speech rights, and has dominated.

And at the same time my ISP cares less and censors less here in Eastern Europe... :P You will most likely not get a letter for downloading movies, games, and so forth.

Good point.

I was thinking China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, etc.

But then, in the EU, you have the Right to be Forgotten ;)

Neither what's illegal and what's immoral are static (though I concede that it is often slower to change laws than public perception)

Jurisdiction is key.

Your post is illegal? Where?

In the jurisdiction of the server? The poster? The moderator? Anywhere in the world?

Anywhere, given requisite extradition agreements.

The problem with just limiting it to illegal content is who gets to decide what is illegal? Websites don't have jurisdictions in the classical sense. Should website follow German laws and ban Nazi imagery? Should they follow follow Polish law and ban blasphemy? Should they follow Russian law and ban homosexual imagery? Should they follow Chinese law and ban support of for an independent Hong Kong?

Some huge percentage of Western mass media is illegal under Saudi law.