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Country's laws are a bit different, simply because a country has virtually absolute legal power over its territory. Countries can and do punish people for breaking laws that one cannot feasibly know they were breaking. Does any human know all the laws in the United States? Would that even be physically possible?


There's some interesting science fiction opportunities here. When you open a connect to a site then all traffic over that connection is subject to the jurisdiction of the ToS for that site regardless of disclosure.

Also we don't even know how many laws there are in the United States for I'd say knowing the content is impossible.




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