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A comment on Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill.

Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by vgel on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:38PM (#32059975)
If I, a US citizen, started an online service that attracted Ofcom attention, what binds me to following UK regulations? The article mentions "extraterritorial enforcement", but what does that mean? Will the US extradite me to the UK if I don't put monitoring in place? Will I get arrested if I visit the UK? Will they try to sue me in US court?

I mean realistically if it became a problem I'd just IP-block all of the UK because they're small, but I don't understand what the legal framework for "extraterritorial enforcement" even is.

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by intunderflow on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:20PM (#32060515)
The Senior Managers Liability part means it's a criminal offence in the UK - so basically you could never visit the UK for fear of arrest.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by muyuu on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:44PM (#32063114)
as stupid as this sounds the US does the reverse already
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by LatteLazy on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:36PM (#32060732)
In theory yes, in practice the US basically never extradites people to the UK and if they tried you would probably have a good defence (against extradition) under various parts of the constitution.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by rsstack on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:42PM (#32061543)
"From January 2004 to the end of December 2011, seven known US citizens were extradited from the US to the UK. No US citizen was extradited for an alleged crime while the person was based in the US."

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/100739/response/25520...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9237663/No-America...

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by solarkraft on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:54PM (#32060942)
Weird how it only goes one way, isn't it?
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by bpye on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:59PM (#32065446)
The UK is frequently reluctant to extradite to the US too - often on human rights grounds.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by Spivak on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:49PM (#32061621)
Well in this specific case it would be pants-on-head stupid because this person committed no crime while under UK jurisdiction.

Like how would it even work if Alabama made it a crime for anyone in the world to have an abortion, extraditions all around?

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by rsstack on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:54PM (#32061694)
States aren't allowed to have treaties with foreign countries, so no country could have an extradition treaty with Alabama even if Alabama wanted to and that country agreed to it (in exchange for something has Alabama has to offer?).
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by Shuang1 on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#32061583)
It's not really weird. We have rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has, so it makes sense we would not extradite.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by rsstack on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:52PM (#32061670)
The US extradites people, including US citizens. That is required from the federal government by extradition treaties that are signed voluntarily by the US (in exchange for extradition _to_ the US). It is uncommon because they require escalations through the Department of State and not many crimes are serious enough to justify extradition.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by dodobirdlord on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:58PM (#32065436)
The US does not allow extradition to other countries for crimes, or the enforcement of civil judgements originating in other countries, that stem from conduct that would be constitutionally protected in the US. For example, a US citizen cannot be extradited to face a charge of blasphemy.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by AustinDev on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:33PM (#32062189)
The US does not extradite for crimes committed in the US to other countries at least I'm not aware of any cases.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by rsstack on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:39PM (#32062280)
No, there is not a precedent for that AFAIK. But the US does extradite, as we don't have "rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has".
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by AustinDev on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:25PM (#32064029)
I appreciate the candor. On my initial reading, I didn't get the scope of what you were saying; I agree.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by jhgb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:07PM (#32071952)
...such as? For that matter, you don't think other countries have rights guaranteed to their citizens that the US doesn't have? The legal mismatches don't seem to be likely to make a difference here that could introduce a bias in extraditions.
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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by GoodbyeMrChips on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:01AM (#32070082)
> We have rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has

Good god!

You really believe your own hype don't you? (I believe the American expression is "drunk the kool-aid").

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by louloulou on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:03PM (#32063872)
LOL.

- Julian Assange

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Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ... by streblo on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:20PM (#32061267)
Is it?
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