Maybe I'm being naive but it seems that we Americans are quick to challenge the cultural sensibilities of other nations based on our own. But yet at the same time we embrace difference we enforce a defacto cultural intolerance for discrimination. For example I know I can be fired at work for any discriminitory speech or action towards any group (and I'm guessing, though I haven't seen it, that the things that were on that web site would get me fired). In the end there seems to be no difference. I guess that it just doesn't bother me. He, as an Italian citizen, broke the law in Italy. His "intellectual property" was confiscated (just like you'd confiscate any illegal information in the US) from the country in which the crime was commited even though it actually resided in another country. I guess I just disagree that there are additional dangling social implications.
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Maybe I'm being naive but it seems that we Americans are quick to challenge the cultural sensibilities of other nations based on our own. But yet at the same time we embrace difference we enforce a defacto cultural intolerance for discrimination. For example I know I can be fired at work for any discriminitory speech or action towards any group (and I'm guessing, though I haven't seen it, that the things that were on that web site would get me fired). In the end there seems to be no difference. I guess that it just doesn't bother me. He, as an Italian citizen, broke the law in Italy. His "intellectual property" was confiscated (just like you'd confiscate any illegal information in the US) from the country in which the crime was commited even though it actually resided in another country. I guess I just disagree that there are additional dangling social implications.