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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by marcus_holmes on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:26PM (#24994130)
This is the key to this whole farce.

Nothing he or his company did was illegal in NZ.

Put it like this: if a Pakistani courts tried to extradite Zuckerburg for blasphemy because some of Facebook's users said bad things about islam, then they'd be rightfully laughed at.

But a US court trying to extradite a NZ CEO for something the company's users did... different story. Because America.

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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by howlgarnish on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:12PM (#24994442)
Extradition works on the principle of dual criminality: the act has to be a crime in both countries. This is why the US won't extradite Zuckerberg to Pakistan for blasphemy, and it's also why the Dotcom case has been tied up in courts for years, because it's not clear at all if what he did was illegal under NZ law or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_criminality

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