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Why should any website operator be held responsible for complying with every stupid law in every podunk shithole jurisdiction everywhere in the world? By this logic, every site should comply with whatever unhinged BS North Korea and Saudi Arabia insist upon, too -- is that what you want?
If Florida doesn't like these websites that are not hosted in Florida, that's Florida's problem, not the website operators', and Florida can do its own damn geofencing itself.
I agree with every single thing you stated. But the article is about these sites breaking Florida law, and they are. Never said anything about this was sane, but again, if I operated a porn site, I'd fence Florida off as a CYA measure.
No, that's not true. You cannot break a law when the government in question has no jurisdiction over you. The sites are not breaking Florida law because they are not subject to Florida law in the first place.
Not every site, but if they’re making money from people in Florida they would be subject to Florida law:
https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/standards-for-internet-jurisdiction.html
Sites outside the country are probably fine but if they’re in the USA not using a geolock is foolish.