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Terr_•about 2 hours ago
> The objection is not that the order is lawless, but that the .com registry on American soil hands American courts a switch for the whole internet, and a Travis County judge has now thrown it.

> [...] American infrastructure, with its supposed First Amendment protections, are of no use here when a Texas judge can order a site taken down for hosting legal content, because it did not introduce digital ID features.

Does this mean almost everybody has to arrange alternate domain names now (under alternate DNS jurisdictions) to avoid their online presence being totally destroyed by the whim of any US state—even ones they don't even do business in?

This isn't how things are supposed to work, dangit...