Re:Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide
by toyg on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:31AM
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Imagine you were a judge tasked with ruling on a case like this. You know the rules force you to tell Google to stop acting like it does, but you also know that your laws are supposed to stop at your borders, and in any case forcing such a global operation to comply with your ruling is almost like fighting windmills. Wouldn't that bother you? Of course it would.
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Re:Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide
by wbillingsley on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @06:06AM
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If I recall, the issue of jurisdiction isn't "does any of the activity happen outside our borders" (law stopping at the border) but "does any of the activity happen inside our borders" (activity in a jurisdiction giving those courts standing).
Re:Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide
by vidarh on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @06:42AM
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> but you also know that your laws are supposed to stop at your borders
There's a number of jurisdictions where that is not strictly true. Including the US (US citizens are subject to US tax law regardless where they live), and a number of European countries.