[ih] legal models [was: there must be a corollary to Godwin's law about Sec 230, was ARPANET pioneer]

[John R. Levine]

>> in other jurisdictions, such as those based on Napoleonic law, this is
> less clear
>
> The mind boggles. I don't know what the US could do except ignore it.
> Getting ONE legal system to work is hard enough.

Just looking at anglophone common law countries, here in the US we have 
fights over Sec 230.  Australia has a newish law that lets the Murdoch 
owned newspapers shake down Google and Facebook.  The Canadian government 
nearly passed bill C-10 which would have regulated the Internet like radio 
and TV and may try to pass it again.  (If that makes no sense, you 
understand correctly.)  And the UK is in another round of trying to outlaw 
strong encryption with the usual fearmongering.

So I would prefer that we screw up or unscrew one country at a time.

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