The HOMEFRONT Act is a GRANITE-style foreign censorship shield bill, the seventh such GRANITE-architecture bill or model policy to be advanced by American legislators in the last seven months, and the third such bill to be advanced in the last ten days. I anticipate there will be even more GRANITE-style bills, both state and federal, in the next several months.
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Samizdata quote of the day – should this be called the “Fuck OfCom Act”?September 9th, 2026 |
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We’re at a legal transition point concerning cross-border happenings.
Say I’m in Germany, and I fire an arrow into the air over the border into France, and hit Mohammad the Frenchman.
What can a Frenchman do to me? French law and courts have no jurisdiction in a separate country.
So, we have treaties between countries to handle this. In my example, a French court, after a legal request from the injured party, will send an extradition request to Germany, and I will likely end up being shipped to France to answer for my act.
But what if Germany has constitutional protection for shooting arrows into the air? What if Germany sees that act as a long-existing Right of each citizen?
Then Germany will refuse the extradition request.
Similar to how the USA refuses UK court extradition requests for someone within the USA who has exercised his right to free speech and has been heard doing so in the UK, to their dismay.
But if I insult a UK copper, and I live in Minnesota, USA, I am safe from UK legal process. UNLESS I own property of some sort in the UK. Then, the UK can take jurisdiction over my money instead of over me. (Jurisdiction in rem versus jurisdiction in personam.)
The new USA effort would basically remove that source of recovery from the UK courts, by allowing people who have had property seized by the UK for such “protected” crimes to seize UK assets that are here in the USA, along with some costs and fees to discourage more UK theft.
The UK has a LOT of assets over here.