• Scotty@scribe.disroot.orgOP
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    11 hours ago

    Citizens have to follow the law of the country they are in, and no government must extend its laws beyond its borders through extraterritorialization.

    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah, that happens all the time, and far too often in my opinion. The first example I heard of was having sex with people of an age that would be illegal in your country while in another country, typically South East Asia. Everyone is okay with that that law being enforced, and I absolutely get why, but they weren’t so happy when this was applied in other areas.

      There are certainly degrees to what is happening here. People who have left your country, gained citizenship elsewhere, and haven’t broken laws where they are being attacked to answer to laws halfway around the world because they used to live there or have family there is on the extreme end.