Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by MichaelZuo on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:20PM
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How are US courts relevant in a case concerning a UK citizen being challenged by another UK citizen in the UK?
From what I understand anyone in the UK can make claims, file cases, etc…, against anyone else.
Edit: They may take action in another jurisdiction where they posesss some advantage, but it would have to be taken up in UK courts to actually mete out formal punishment.
Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by wandaluzt on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:21PM
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Cloudflare is the middleman to my site. The individual got a court to issue a subpoena to Cloudflare, a US based company to find out the identity of the operators of the site.
Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by MichaelZuo on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:44PM
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I edited the prior comment a minute after I posted it.
How is that relevant when they would still need to go to a UK court to go after you in some way?
Which is what you are afraid of, I’m assumming?
Re:Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
by wandaluzt on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:51PM
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At least in the UK a lawyer would tell him whether he had a case or not. At least I'd be dealing with the UK court system where I have some chance of understanding it. I also have legal insurance. I do not genuinely believe it would get to court. Cloudflare just handing over details is just chilling. They could have just asked me to take the content down.
I'm amazed that this can happen so easily in the US. I realise the US courts probably don't care about UK citizens, but free speech is free speech. I realise that's not without consequence, there's been nothing untrue said about this individual to warrant this action.