US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that last week State of Maryland prosecutors were able to obtain a warrant ordering Verisign, the company that manages the dot-com domain name registry, to redirect the website to a warning page advising that it has been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The message from the case is clear: all dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org domain names are subject to U.S. jurisdiction regardless of where they operate or where they were registered. This grants the U.S. a form of 'super-jurisdiction' over Internet activities, since most other countries are limited to jurisdiction with a real and substantial connection."

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You live in a police state, so what do you expect?

[Anonymous Coward]

We have turned a corner where obeying the law is no longer protection from arrest or confiscation.

You turned that corner so long ago you can't even see it from here.

When your cops are not punished for publicly murdering unarmed, downed citizens, and the army kidnaps foreign leaders and invades sovereign nations without casus belli, your government is not operating under the rule of law. Unsurprisingly, your government and law enforcement is going to become ever more brutal, corrupt and repressive.