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?
It’s not copyright, they’re claiming x and itter are trademark infringement and that scraping is hacking in Texas. That’s legally bullshit even in the US, but SpaceX lawyers not even trying is it’s own kind of intimidation.
Ultimately the richest guy in the history of civilization is mad at you, he’s a neo-Nazi international pedophile ring conspirator dissociated on ketamine that thinks he’s in the Matrix, he has a personal private army deputized as federal Marshalls by the US president, and he owns an intercontinental ballistic missile system that can fire a 10 ton tungsten rod into your country’s capitol from orbit and decapitate your entire government. That’s not a legal problem it’s a mutually assured destruction problem.
Who is on Ketamine?
Leaving aside the scifi conspiracy crap, (And I’m holding out hope you’re just kidding) “Rods from God” are almost as stupid as space lasers. Every Newton of energy released by a kinetic weapon must fist be stored as potential energy, i.e. lifting 10 tons into orbit.
But you can’t just do it once. You’d need several projectiles for each launch platform, and you’d need multiple platforms to credibly threaten the whole earth, and more still if you don’t want to wait hours for the launch platform to orbit over your target.
Ballistic nuclear weapons are superior in every concealable way and that’s why we built those instead of scifi fever-dreams and star wars.