Is that covered by any actual law? Is some government entity responsible? Or is it just an anarchy breaking down?

No one wants to get a sovereign country involved in these issues if they can avoid it, because that is an even more giant can of worms. Because then it’s ’whose laws again?’.

And all these matters cross every international boundary as a matter of course.

Unfortunately, it is also enabling this particular situation.

Ah. It sounds like another case where the Internet was built assuming a fair bit of goodwill on behalf of its users. Until we realized that it means that the worst 0.01% now have access to everyone in the world.

Though also, the alternatives are rarely much better.

Not that the rest of the world would be feeling great if this was all based out of Washington DC right now eh? Or Beijing. Or Paris. (Depending on who they are)

Its Africa