When you create the infrastructure, you make the rules. If a party doesn't like those rules, they are free to create their own replacement infrastructure and obtain global buy-in.

ccTLDs already exist and their respective countries have sovereignty over those TLDs: the UK can disappear any .uk domain name it wants from the global internet.

The .com TLD is American, and is therefore subject to American legal proceedings.

> Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.

Pretty clear to me.

Did those abortion clinic workers perform an abortion in Texas? Then yes, they can.

This website was providing services to the people of Texas, and Verisign provides services to the people of Texas as well.

I'm sure there are friendly and generous humans also living in North Korea and Iran. Doesn't mean I want to risk subjecting myself to their government's authority.

clearly more real, non-friendly, non-generous humans live in texas, who want their government to portray itself in such a way live in texas.

a reasonable number of those people is 10-15%, not 51%+

Real, friendly, generous humans live in Haiti, too. That doesn't make it a good travel destination.

The friendly, generous humans who resoundingly endorse the corrupt Ken Paxton's actions and will overwhelmingly vote for him to serve them in the senate this year? Actions speak louder than words. With friends like Texans, who needs enemies?

Until those people control the Texas government, I don’t see the relevance.

I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era, when black people weren’t allowed to vote or even participate in the economy at much beyond the level of slaves. I didn’t get upset when people criticized South Africa, or boycotted it, because the country’s actions certainly justified that.

The entire US is in much the same situation now: in the process of flushing democratic governance down the toilet, elevating open corruption to the standard way of doing business, and flirting with authoritarianism to a degree virtually unimaginable just a few years ago.

In that context, the #notalltexans whine sounds rather muffled from all that sand you’ve stuck your head in.

That was my point?

It's more like the government of Hungry or Bulgaria in the EU analogy.

Motherless shouldn't have used a domain under Texan jurisdiction if they didn't want this to happen.

The US court system is completely hamstrung by the current administration.

FWIW, the site isn't blocked globally. They just moved to a new domain.

I do generally agree that local governments trying to forcefully exert their influence beyond their jurisdiction is deeply problematic. It wouldn't even be possible to host a website on the internet if this becomes normalized, due to being held to thousands of contradicting standards. At most Texas should have the authority to tell Texas ISPs to block traffic.

They're already actively trying to prosecute people who mail medication across state lines.

Yes. With what they just did.

Yes, it means exactly that.

Right, that's why speech by white Christians males should be protected, and not any of those Muslims or gay people.

Now, I say this mockingly, my neighbors (yes I live in Texas) say such things with a steadfast belief. Which is really weird to me because they keep electing adulterers and rapists.

Multiple times now in this thread you've parroted "might makes right" as if it's some universal axiom or law of physics (such as gravity, or the speed of light). This is what you actually believe as a moral guiding principle? Further, it seems to be presented in such a way to justify actions taken by one aggressive party in a legal dispute as inevitable, and therefore not worth forming any organized resistance to. Just roll over, show your belly, submit meekly to the more powerful (whomever), and accept your fate.

I'm honestly wondering what sort of person goes through life like that.

I think he means since IANA/ICANN assings country LTD, so technically it's also under USA jurisdiction.

Waiting for the day when texas court demands deleting .ee LTD (since estonia is currently only country which has fought agaisnt age verification laws)

you'll find people in the thread saying that if its accessible in texas, its in Texas

under that setup, yes, twxas is illegally breaking US sanctions against north korea

A federal court, sure. But this was a state court ruling on a state law.