I’m not espousing a legal model at all. I’m just pointing out that literally no government in history has ever said “you can send whatever you want into our country with no restrictions.”

That’s how the internet worked in most countries until recently.

In any case, once again it’s irrelevant. Whatever your justification for it, this behavior will lead to internet siloization.

You’re confusing the Internet with services that use the Internet to do business. The former is just a delivery mechanism for the latter, which is what’s being regulated.

Plenty of countries require you to register for sales tax once you establish a presence in their country, whether you sell goods or services. No business operating in this environment thinks it’s unreasonable to do so. Once again “their house, their rules.”

> You’re confusing the Internet with services that use the Internet to do business.

No, you are confusing sending information with “doing business”.

The world has changed quite a bit. Sending information IS doing business these days, the world is digital.

Laws don’t give a damn about data packets: they’re interested in the real world outcomes which are the services those packets enable. If you can’t understand this then I’m not wasting any more time explaining the basics of real life to you.