"Meta had argued that it can't be sued in Vermont court because neither the company nor the app design has specific ties to the state. Vermont countered that the sites' large number of teen users gives its courts jurisdiction. "
Talk about seriously disturbing. They just threw out a legal concept called jurisdiction or more specifically nexus in one blow that protects everyone from having to obey the laws of every other state on the mere basis someone might use a product or site in another state.
There is no way anyone including a large entity could even begin to comply with the 10s of millions of laws that exist in just the 10,000 + legal jurisdictions within the United States.
What this means is everyone is effectively guilty of millions of laws simply because they posted something that can be accessed on the internet.
This is not the first time that US courts have accepted this kind of nonsensical argument.
It's getting more and more dangerous to live within the United States when foreigners can demand and get your extradition despite that you've NEVER even stepped into their jurisdiction.
If Texas wants to extradite a a liberal for saying means things on the internet what's to stop them OTHER THAN a lack of nexus and jurisdiction?
The answer is pretty much nothing if you completely throw the concept of jurisdiction and nexus right out the window.
Previously accepted weak arguments have been "you have a site where the domain name was registered using a company in the United States and therefore we have jurisdiction".... or "you sent your physical property into another state (DVD rentals) therefore we can tax you" (pre-US Supreme court ruling that threw out nexus for sales taxes, which is probably the biggest can of worms).
Talk about seriously disturbing. They just threw out a legal concept called jurisdiction or more specifically nexus in one blow that protects everyone from having to obey the laws of every other state on the mere basis someone might use a product or site in another state.
There is no way anyone including a large entity could even begin to comply with the 10s of millions of laws that exist in just the 10,000 + legal jurisdictions within the United States.
What this means is everyone is effectively guilty of millions of laws simply because they posted something that can be accessed on the internet.
This is not the first time that US courts have accepted this kind of nonsensical argument.
It's getting more and more dangerous to live within the United States when foreigners can demand and get your extradition despite that you've NEVER even stepped into their jurisdiction.
If Texas wants to extradite a a liberal for saying means things on the internet what's to stop them OTHER THAN a lack of nexus and jurisdiction?
The answer is pretty much nothing if you completely throw the concept of jurisdiction and nexus right out the window.
Previously accepted weak arguments have been "you have a site where the domain name was registered using a company in the United States and therefore we have jurisdiction".... or "you sent your physical property into another state (DVD rentals) therefore we can tax you" (pre-US Supreme court ruling that threw out nexus for sales taxes, which is probably the biggest can of worms).