[Tfug] Webpage outside US

[Andrew Ayre]

Regarding sustainability, I think he meant that if you host your site 
outside the US then you could be in part responsible for lost jobs here 
in the US. I.e. if everyone did the same thing that you are considering 
what would happen to the US web hosting business and jobs?

sitkaa at email.arizona.edu wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> The relative jurisprudence of the various countries (including the US) 
> concerns
> me. Although what I write can be inflammatory, I have no wish to be 
> slanderous.
> In my paper, for instance, I had been asked to offer up an informed opinion of
> several sustainability foils. That this opinion could seen as slander is
> disconcerting since I have no positive way to relate rogues and scoundrels as
> anything but. Do you?
> 
> As for whther the electrons bouncing around the net are more or less 
> sustainable
> in Switzerland, China, Zimbabwe, or Arizona to any substantive degree, I don't
> see it.
> 
> m
> 
> 
> Quoting Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu>:
> 
>> I personally would keep it in the US.  The jurisprudence of foreign
>> nations are unknown to the majority of Americans.  Most other
>> first-world countries don't even have a strong freedom of speech law
>> like our constitution provides.  For example, are you versed in how
>> Switzerland would treat slander?  I'd also worry that non-citizens
>> would have less legal rights than the local boys.  And in the event
>> that you were to break a US and/or Swiss law, Switzerland and the US
>> have judicial assistance treaties.
>>
>> Quite ironically, these concerns don't even account for the
>> "sustainability" of the US IT sector by shipping your site overseas.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Quoting sitkaa at email.arizona.edu:
>>> There is nothing illegal on my website. Take a look yourself. It is
>>> just my work
>>> on my thesis, being helped by various family and friends.
>>>
>>> I was thinking of hosting the website outside of the country because 
>>> I wanted
>>> to. That's all. I was thinking of Geneva because that is where the UN is.
>>>
>>> There is abunch here to look at.
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
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>> Arizona.
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