In my understanding, the "cease and desist" letter from χwitter against XCancel and Nitter is a warning to stop copyright infringement based on US-Law. The US-Law has no effect on most parts of the world. Why cant we just ignore it altogether? I understand that it will be problematic for US- Citizen but everyone else just have to obey their own countries jurisdiction.

Is there a point in the Internets infrastructure that the USA has enough leverage on to stop it anyway? Or am i downplaying the Influence of US Law on judicial decisions in other countries?

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago

Which is basically what patent trolls do. Most of their claims would not win in court, they are threatening people with having to fight a long expensive court battle or pay them less than that battle would cost.

It is extortion.

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