Canada joins the US in making rules about other countries
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/top-canadian-court-permits-worldwide-internet-censorship
In a decision that has troubling implications for free expression online, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a company’s effort to force Google to de-list entire domains and websites from its search index, effectively making them invisible to everyone using Google’s search engine
The case, Google v. Equustek, began when British Columbia-based Equustek Solutions accused Morgan Jack and others, known as the Datalink defendants, of selling counterfeit Equustek routers online. It claimed California-based Google facilitated access to the defendants’ sites. The defendants never appeared in court to challenge the claim, allowing default judgment against them, which meant Equustek effectively won without the court ever considering whether the claim was valid.
Of course, Google cannot let that stand because it would basically mean they have to close operations in Canada for the sake of protecting the rights of users in every other country.
So, now it's not just the USA 'regulators' making rules that are outside their jurisdiction. The IRS claims to be able to tax US citizens income entirely domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction. These 'lawmakers' and 'judges' are going to shoot themselves in the foot with this sort of mischief.
The need for uncensorable forums that do not have a domicile, like the Steem blockchain, becomes ever more pressing...
There's such an obvious opportunity for an .onion or other resilient search engine. It's been begging for existence for quite some years now...
Better yet - a resilient class of search engines. No more of this one-size-fits-all nonsense.
Yes, the search engine is an application, and to defeat this bullshit, it has to run on a distributed database system that lacks a single (or, really, any) "domicile for taxation purposes and jurisdiction".
Of course the China-led UN will push back against this too, but I welcome their blatant idiocy, every little chip in the edifice of the legitimacy of these pirate gangs called governments, is saving lives and making lives better.
By the way, the ability to dynamically distribute applications such as this example, is what my work on the 4 base protocols of the former Dawn Network architecture aims at. There is no fundamental difference in implementation between a database that maintains the state of a virtual world, a trading platform, a marketplace, or a search engine. Users post new transactions, query for data in the database, and the databases replicate the data across the swarm, both to validators, which ensure it's not being spammed, and replicators, who provide the ability to query the database and proxy transactions.
By the way, this way of distributing applications, it's more or less a given that this is the future of computer applications. It's gonna get really sticky for the pirates who want to play at being Nanny for the rest of us. Imagine a darkweb distributed application that can dynamically relocate itself and automatically route around damage from government interference. Their way of regulating society will go the way of the dinosaurs. This is a new world.
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