either you respect US law or you don’t.

So you believe in respecting laws whether they’re good or bad? Does that include tossing people in prison for marijuana use? Sodomy laws? Jim Crow laws? Would this philosophy also apply to Sharia if we were in Saudi Arabia?

I think the point here is that some of us don’t respect laws that violate our ethics and possibly our rights.

Honour among thieves is more common than businessmen, apparently.

I have worked in several countries and have been careful to abide by the local laws. If I wanted to do business in China, I would absolutely expect to be subject to Chinese law. Avoiding going there makes it difficult, but not impossible, for them to prosecute me. If I were to send a bribe to the wrong state official and got caught at it, even though I have never set foot in China, I would expect them to indite me. Extradition is another problem. In the case of the Isle of Man, the US has a treaty in place that allows extradition for trial.

With the online poker sites, if the charges are true, the defendants were aware that they could not legally transfer money to pay online gambling debts. They are charged with using illegal methods to transfer the funds.

yeah, no. The Govt only shut down the .com domains which were US-registered. That is within their legal rights in this case.

No. There wouldn’t be an issue if the US government were policing .us, but they’re seizing international domains in .com.

What the FBI is the US government!? Oh, never mind.

The FBI goes through the legal process, gets the appropriate warrants, and makes the busts. How is that different than anything else? As I understand it, they are busting them on fraud and money laundering. If this was some one from Goldman Sachs, you would be dancing in the street that another Wall Street Pig got busted. If this was a drug bust we wouldn’t bat an eye that the Ferraris and cigarette boats are being confiscated. The domains are assets just like anything else – why would they be immune?

Any moment now…

Can’t be much longer…

“It can only be moments now before the FBI arrests the entire staff of… [fill in the blank]”

They hold too much power to be dealt with directly. They way you deal with an entity that holds more power than you do is different than how you deal with someone who doesn’t.

“…. who destroyed the world’s economy with their inflationary fiat money counterfeiting and fictional reserve lending!”

We should return to the gold standard huh? Your fundamentalist economic theories are based on a false understanding of how economies actually work.

Perhaps we should close down US sites in retaliation

The FBI goes through the legal process, gets the appropriate warrants, and makes the busts. How is that different than anything else? As I understand it, they are busting them on fraud and money laundering. If this was some one from Goldman Sachs, you would be dancing in the street that another Wall Street Pig got busted. If this was a drug bust we wouldn’t bat an eye that the Ferraris and cigarette boats are being confiscated. The domains are assets just like anything else – why would they be immune?

Because they aren’t prosecuting US citizens, or even people in the US. Nor is it even clear if there was any law broken and the ones being quoted do not apply to the people being charged.

USA – WORLD POLICE! USA – WORLD POLICE!

yeah – for sure. There will never be an extradition from Manx, Ireland, or the UK for the gambling violation. As for money laundering, sounds like a stitch up. If the original money wasnt criminally taken – which it wouldn’t be in UK or Irish law the the money wasn’t dirty, and therefore not laundered. Moved.

Apparently the UK and Ireland are not going to close down US porn sites and extradite american citizens because they dont feel they are running an empire where they can control the internet.