Sarah B. Rogers
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526 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
Sarah B. Rogers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we've had to think about, you know, when there's a website in California that operates in Texas, how do you decide to what extent Texas gets to regulate?
And we have all these jurisdictional concepts like, does the website purposefully avail itself of the form?
Are you posting defamatory statements about a person in Texas?
But the mere existence of a website in California that Texas doesn't like is hardly ever, basically never, a basis for regulation.
And so when we talk about things like extraterritoriality, what we're really talking about is it's undisputed that Europeans get to have their own laws in Europe.
But we also get to have our own laws in the United States.
And we're celebrating 250 years of American independence here.
And so we want our markets to be able to interoperate online, but we're not willing to give up American freedom of speech and the bargain.
Or is that since it... That was in 2023 alone.
But that isn't just under the Online Safety Act.
So I think what's particularly insidious and particularly relevant about statutes like the OSA and the DSA is that these are portals through which existing censorship laws get applied to the Internet.
So a lot of these Brits are arrested under existing statutes, like there's a Communications Act, there's a law against inciting quote-unquote racial or religious hatred, and we, I think, have differences of opinion about what amounts to incitement in America versus the UK.
But so, for example, you had a comedian called Graham Linehan who tweeted that if a woman sees a penis in a ladies' room, she should feel free to kick that guy in the balls.
And that's something a lot of comedians say, and I think it channels an impulse that a lot of Americans and Europeans would frankly consider common sense.
But he was dragged out of the airport like a terrorist, had his devices confiscated, was thrown in jail overnight and lost access, my understanding, as to his heart medication, if I recall correctly.
Because this offended some existing law against provocative speech in the UK.
And the Online Safety Act is a device through which all of those existing laws get applied to the internet.
You had another case in the UK where Joey Breton, a footballer, called somebody a bike nonce, which nonce is not an American term, but I imagine you're insinuating someone is effeminate for riding a bike so much or in the manner that he rides the bike.
And that resulted in a suspended prison sentence, but still a prison sentence.
Yeah, basically.
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