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Assuming these laws pass, which is unlikely, what would probably happen
is that the lists would move to countries which do not have such laws. If
I run a list in Sweden with Canadian subscribers, the Canadian government
can consider me responsible for what people in Spain post to my list on
the basis that it reached Canadian soil, but there isn't much they can do
about it. In fact it would probably be perfectly legal for Canadians to
purchase this service from me so that they can keep running their lists
without having to worry about these new laws. Many Canadian service
providers would open an office in the US and, having had to open this
office, find it profitable to locate their income there so they can pay
less taxes. Five or six years later the Canadian government would realize
that the net result is less tax money and remove the law. There would
only be a serious problem for Canadian users if both Canada and the US
passed the same law, since it is far less convenient for Canadian
businesses to relocate to other countries. But if past experience is any
indication, the very fact that it passed in Canada would make it very
unlikely that it would pass in the US ;-)
Eric
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