We are under attack

Re:We are under attack by wpietri on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:29PM (#9235947)

Moreover, I'm not sure their argument makes sense even on its face. When they say they "comply with the law", which law do they mean? There are many thousands of lawmaking bodies. What if a small-town mayor passes a law outlawing the word "webinar"? What if China passes a law saying that DDOS protection is illegal worldwide? Or websites not properly registered with the Central Propaganda Department may not be carried by any network provider?

Cloudflare, I'm sure, will happily ignore any laws like that. The question is: why not ignore this too?

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Re:We are under attack by sdm on Friday March 20, 2015 @07:23PM (#9241266)

> What if China passes a law saying that DDOS protection is illegal worldwide?

Jurisdiction.

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Re:We are under attack by dragonwriter on Friday March 20, 2015 @07:25PM (#9241270)

The wonderful thing about sovereignty is that a country's law's jurisdiction is whatever the country decides they it should be.

The degree to which they can practically enforce that jurisdiction becomes a game of relative power and how willing others are to constrain it, of course.

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