Internet and jurisdiction Policy Network

A message posted from a phone in Pune, on a server sitting in the United States, read by someone in Dubai, and defamatory to a person in Delhi. Four countries, one post. If that person wants to sue, whose court can even hear the case, and whose law decides whether the post was legal in the first place? The internet was built without borders. Law was not.

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The internet's cross-border architecture collides with a legal system still built on territorial sovereignty, and no single country's law can simply follow its citizens onto a network that runs everywhere at once.

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