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And it’s also incredibly tiring to force legal paradigms of one country over another. Don’t like it? Don’t operate. Please don’t operate and whine how the country is not bending over backwards to your demands.

The internet has enabled a sort of structural/emergent legal colonialism - not centrally planned or directed, but as an emergent property of a global information system and those most economically incentivized to profit off it. The most immediately unpleasant example of this is nuisance streamers who deliberately antagonize people in foreign jurisdictions while leaning on the norms and protections of their own home turf.

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