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0 pointspc863mo ago0 comments

> People going "Those Crazy Brits! Thank God That'll Never Happen Here!" seem pretty ill-informed.

Well the second part of that is ill-informed but the first part is just... informed?

As far as the US seizing sites, does that happen when the site is hosted outside of the US and without the cooperation of authorities where ever it is actually hosted? I don't think so but I'm happy to be proven wrong there.

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flir3mo ago· 3 in thread

DNS.

pc86OP3mo ago

What about it?

catlikesshrimp3mo ago

If they can't undo the site at the tld level, the US can still compel the DNS servers nearby to erase their record, or redirect it to a "this domain is seized" page. In extremis. they could just poison the DNS addresses of blocked websites although they dot need to.

pc86OP3mo ago

If the DNS is located in the US then they have to comply with US law.

My point was just "the US seizing websites hosted outside of the US without that country's cooperation" simply doesn't happen because there's no way for it to happen.

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