How can you even sue without any legal identity? This website and an organisation does not happen to have any. Might as well be some shell company in the Carribeans with no legal standing in France. It's not even good enough for public prosecution, as the tip would then go through French services.

This law is completely backwards, and worse than a SLAPP. If you cannot respond to a report in any way, it should be null.

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valicord 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you can sue shark fins, why not a website? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...

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flufluflufluffy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Amazing, here is a list of other similarly hilariously-titled “in rem jurisdiction” cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction#Examples

Some good ones: - United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster - United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness - South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats

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robotnikman 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

My favorite one: United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Article_Consi...

	▲	rkomorn 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"More or Less" maybe takes the cake for me.

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bogwog an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

My favorite is United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster.

The Rooster won.

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xandrius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Holy crap, 30'000 sharks kills for a bloody soup. Insane and that wasn't even their only journey.

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pwg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> How can you even sue without any legal identity?

The images of the various messages on the adguard page are not lawsuits.

They are threatening messages that threaten to create legal issues, but until and unless they carry through on the threats, are simply "threats" to the extent we've been given any visibility into the messages contents.

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saturnite 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember when publishers were suing individuals using nothing more than a list of IP addresses. Those crazy times seem to have come around again.

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SlightlyLeftPad 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lawmakers are gonna have to figure that out soon (years hopefully) since it’s not unlikely that AGI will have the same issue.

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

US courts let you sue objects under "in rem" jurisdiction.

In rem = the thing is the defendant. You're not suing a person, and you're asking the court to decide who owns or controls a specific property.

The quintessential case is United States v. $124,700

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...

	▲	mrtksn 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Interesting, so the US already has the tools to go after AI, self driving cars and robots.
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