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		noosphr 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free ... Again, if I want to import pron from Japan I need to not only prove I'm 18 to the border censors but make sure the pron is legal locally. Plenty of people have been arrested for importing things legal in Japan that are illegal in the West. Plenty of countries have laws on the books that make it a felony to even look at what's on the average Japanese store bookshelf while you're in Japan. Why should the laws be different just because you're moving electrons instead of atoms?

int_19h 4 months ago [–]

They shouldn't, of course. Those existing regulations that you're referencing are equally bad for all the same reasons, and we should get rid of them.

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