• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    So if I seed a bunch of Australian media to a ratio of 10,000, Uncle Sam can ship me off to Australia to be tried for crimes where my Constitutional rights don’t apply?

    Cool.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Technically yes.

      But I wasn’t commenting on whether this given situation, or whether modern copyright laws, are reasonable.

      In this case the extradition is extending the reach of shitty laws, but that is not an arguement against extraditions being a thing.

      They are a good thing. They allow for laws to reach across borders, because otherwise a state of anarchy would exist between countries, where all crime would be fair game, as long as you only victimized foreigners. That would be extremely fucked.

      It’s why contries like Russia and India have online scam industries, because there exists no international agreement that would enforce some consequences for robbing people on the other side of the world.