An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, the alleged masterminds behind Z-Library -- an e-book pirate site that claims to be "the world's largest library" -- were arrested. According to a press release yesterday from the US Department of Justice, Russian nationals Anton Nap...

Despite them not being physically in the US, not having operations in the US, and not selling the books. Just normal world police BS.

  • robinn [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    "The Chinese political system is authoritarian. There are no freely elected national leaders, political opposition is suppressed, all religious activity is controlled by the CCP, dissent is not permitted and civil rights are curtailed. Elections in China occur under a single-party authoritarian political system." - Wikipedia (totally an independent source)

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Looking at how religion works in America, the CCP should probably take over the handling of religious activity in the US as well

    • ancom20 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Just replace the references to China in that quote with US and should be correct.