[governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

As the contract in question explicitly states US court, the teen certainly 
has standing or her parents do if she is a minor. The logistics of actually 
suing the company in California are another story

--srs (htc one x)



On 4 October 2013 7:03:21 AM "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that true?  And supposing company X says no, sue me…? Would the teen in 
> BF be able to obtain standing re: this in a US court?
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> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] Sent: Thursday, 
> October 03, 2013 6:30 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein; 'parminder'; 
> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> Subject: RE: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some 
> restrictions on Internet ads
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> If a service claims to be under the jurisdiction of the courts in 
> California, and Californian law orders the service to provide a data 
> scrubbing mechanism to its users..
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> I don't see why it matters if a Burkina Faso teen wants to scrub his 
> information, it still does get scrubbed.
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> --srs
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> From: michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> Date: 10/04/2013 6:54 AM 
> (GMT+05:30) To: 'parminder' 
> <parminder at itforchange.net>,governance at lists.igcaucus.org,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
> Subject: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Californian law putting some 
> restrictions on Internet ads
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> I guess a question to ask is what is the overall The "governance"/policy 
> framework which would allow a teenager in Burkina Faso to have content 
> removed about themselves?
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> In some ways that should be the/an objective of our deliberations…
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> From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net 
> [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of parminder
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:08 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; &lt,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt,
> Subject: [bestbits] Californian law putting some restrictions on Internet ads
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> See
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> http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB568
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> It is about putting restrictions on some kinds of ads on Internet services, 
> applications etc that aimed at minors. It also allows minors to remove 
> content about themselves.
> Whatever agreement or disagreement people may have with this particular 
> law, one important issue here is that California can make such law, but not 
> states in other countries, not even national governments. I mean it is so 
> so difficult for them to enforce it, that it may not be worth attempting 
> it. At other places, big companies may simply blackmail them by threats of 
> withdrawal as Google did with governemnt of Taipei a few years back. (which 
> they wont do with Gov of California).... This is how policy space for non 
> US gov entities is shrinking fast, and what it means is that political and 
> democratic space of our world is shrinking... A key global IG issue if 
> there ever was one.
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> parminder
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