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Originally Posted by L-Pink
What's important is enough precedent is set that it doesn't matter what the content is.
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Precedents just help with court cases being settled in a predictable way and are still only going to apply in a fixed jurisdiction - if the comic site had been hosted in Hong Kong or somewhere similar it would still be up.
Content is still going to be something that helps get or not get backing from someone in power.
I think a lot of the problem with controlling things on the internet is that the members of any government are usually old, judges are usually old, it's something they don't have a huge understanding of. Someone is bound to say politicians use twatter/facebook to argue against this but being able to spout 140 characters of utter shit nine thousand times a day or run an imaginary farm are very simple things compared to how complicated anything is going to be to them if they are confronted with someone that can just confuse the fuck out of them with technical stuff.