This is nothing new. Remember when the US pressured Sweden into taking down the pirate bay (Very unsuccessfully)? Using global influence to get countries to do something that they would not do on their own has always been the case.

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dmos62 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Let's not forget the Julian Assange extradition fiasco.

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boxed 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty successfully I would say. Armed police raided the server hosting provider scaring the shit out of some dudes who were just monitoring the power basically. And people went to prison.

	▲	dewey 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Depends on your definition of successful. If the goal was to take down the website that didn't work as it was back online hours after and is online to this day even if the organization behind it probably changed.
	▲	technothrasher 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And yet the pirate bay has stayed up and easy accessible to this day.