Comment by JimDabell
7 months ago
> The US has always claimed jurisdiction on foreign-hosted but US-accessible content.
There’s been multiple cases where non-US gambling websites have had their domains confiscated by the American government because they have American users, going back about 20 years.
US can only confiscate US domains, right?
Claiming jurisdiction is one thing, ensuring cooperation of the host state is another, and requires either kowtowing to the US or similar legislation, even if there is an extradition treaty.
Doing business in the United States (by having customers there and examining money) will subject you to their laws.
And imgur has users in the UK, and is showing them ads and collecting their data (both things of monetary value). Consequently the UK claims they are subject to their laws
The arguments are very similar. You could claim that only accepting fiat currency should count, but that would open a massive loophole that would be trivial to exploit