Think you're legal? Think again.
So, you could be doing something perfectly legal online while sitting in your million-dollar mansion, or in your mom's basement, or at an internet cafe, and some crackpot in law enforcement in England could decide that what you did is illegal. So he files charges, and submits an extradition order to the US Government, asking them to arrest you and hand you over to British authorities for violating one of their laws...while on your home soil, doing something perfectly legal..
Sounds like something from The Bee, doesn't it? Nope. London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley (I refuse to refer to this asshat by his "Sir" title) has decided that if what you're doing in your country is perfectly legal and he doesn't like it, he has the right to arrest and extradite you.
I want so, so badly to be the test case. If I wasn't married (which means nobody else would be directly negatively affected), I would contact an organization like the ADF and ask them if they'd represent me in fighting extradition. I would then set up some social media account for the sole purpose of posting something this idiot doesn't like. (Yes, I'm one of those who has absolutely no online presence other than The Gulch.)
I'd then sit back and see what happened. Of course, I'd make sure that the entire event was as public as possible, so that everyone else could see what was going on.
Sounds like something from The Bee, doesn't it? Nope. London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley (I refuse to refer to this asshat by his "Sir" title) has decided that if what you're doing in your country is perfectly legal and he doesn't like it, he has the right to arrest and extradite you.
I want so, so badly to be the test case. If I wasn't married (which means nobody else would be directly negatively affected), I would contact an organization like the ADF and ask them if they'd represent me in fighting extradition. I would then set up some social media account for the sole purpose of posting something this idiot doesn't like. (Yes, I'm one of those who has absolutely no online presence other than The Gulch.)
I'd then sit back and see what happened. Of course, I'd make sure that the entire event was as public as possible, so that everyone else could see what was going on.