Bill that would end the internet as we know it

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wait, how would this be bad for other countries? Wouldn't they just laugh at America and continue, business as usual? How does American law dictate what some blogger in Germany posts?

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wait, how would this be bad for other countries? Wouldn't they just laugh at America and continue, business as usual? How does American law dictate what some blogger in Germany posts?

I don't know details of how it works, but basically internets would need to be segregated from US. At first there would be a ton of issues of US stepping bounds and hassling foreign businesses and servers and whatnot. Also, US policy on lots of stuff dictates foreign policy. It's hard to say why, but using the drug war as an example, a lot of experts have stated that the rest of the industrialized world has to hold off on progressing drug policy due to US. I honestly don't remember why though, just that it happens.

One way of looking at it could be in that other nations didn't really go about passing protectionist online poker laws until the US did UIGEA. It would suggest that if US passed this draconian shit, you'd start seeing it happen in smaller countries, as that's often how it works