The internet has always stretched through many different legal jurisdictions. It's tech companies who have decided that they can hide fugitive at the other end of a wire.
> The internet has always stretched through many different legal jurisdictions.
Back in the early days this wasn't a problem in practice because internet-based entities were operating in good faith, so even if the legal landscape was murky, nobody had a need to resort to it. This has now changed as companies are now acting in bad faith doing things many find reprehensible, and a legal precedent and/or a change in law is needed to effectively deal with those bad actors.
> This has now changed as companies are now acting in bad faith
I wonder what the major impetus for the change has been. Is it akin to having a million monkeys guided by money on computers, eventually one of them will write code enabling a fascist internet?
Sort of. Originally, it was just hackers making things on the internet. Now, it's the most popular way to make money in the world. So if there's a way to make money doing something reprehensible on the internet, someone reprehensible will find it and do it.
