In my understanding, the “cease and desist” letter from χwitter against XCancel and Nitter is a warning to stop copyright infringement based on US-Law. The US-Law has no effect on most parts of the world. Why cant we just ignore it altogether? I understand that it will be problematic for US- Citizen but everyone else just have to obey their own countries jurisdiction.

Is there a point in the Internets infrastructure that the USA has enough leverage on to stop it anyway? Or am i downplaying the Influence of US Law on judicial decisions in other countries?

  • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    9 days ago

    It depends where the sites are hosted, afaik.

    But you’re right in that if they fall outside of a DMCA friendly jurisdiction the site owners can tell Elon to go fuck himself, and they should.