| ▲ | bitpush an hour ago | |
> In most cases, you accessing my website is more like this scenario. Intermediaries (ISPs) brought you the product. Offering a website to a certain country is not something ISP decided for you, but you actively did that yourself. I cant create a gambling website and host it in Monaco and then serve it to someone in CA and say that, it isnt on me, but on Comcast. | ||
| ▲ | ahtihn an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
How do you "actively" offer a website to a country? Websites aren't broadcasting, they are waiting there and responding to requests. Why should it be on every server in the world to have to figure out whether they're allowed to respond to a given request based on the client's country? Why is it not the user's responsibility to not send requests? Why isn't it the ISP's responsibility to not route the requests? And every single router in between? | ||
| ▲ | iamnothere an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
False. Making a website accessible from the internet is not “offering” it to anyone. You might have a claim if I were paying to advertise in that country, maybe. And actually you can just make a gambling website overseas, people have done that since forever. You might have trouble with accepting payments, though. | ||