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It does. The technical implementation can have a lot of effect on the chilling effect of a law.

Let's take the extremes. If the technical implementation is "we'll send a drone to fire a missile at your building", people will be much more scared to take any risk at all of hosting user-generated content than if the implementation is "you'll get a warning and a $5 fine".

Everything considered, "We'll arrest you and everyone that works for your company and nuke your DNS entry" is pretty chilling. If they only punished bank misconduct that hard...



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