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True, and Amazon Italy have not on list items that are illegal in Italy, but you can also buy from other Amazon stores, I placed a couple of order on Amazon France, for example.
The point is that if I try to buy from Amazon US, the US branch of Amazon don't sell me items they know they cannot sell in Italy (or cannot be sent for whatever reason).
Because the seller know better than sell an illegal product, a seller know what can sell and where.
But be sure that if for some reason I order a book from Amazon US and somehow a gun is sent, obviously for some error, Italian authorities would ask both me and Amazon US what's going on. Then ok, both us and Amazon can demostrate it is an error and then nothing came out of this (if not that Amazon US maybe does not get the gun back).
I don’t want to argue, I just want to know. You feel it’s always been like that. And you feel that way because that’s been your experience with Amazon. Would you agree to that summary?
What is your intuition about the technological background? When someone sets up a website, what do they have to do or not do, so that it is visible in the UK, Italy, … ?
No, I had the same experience with every site that sell something. I cannot buy online a gun from San Marino from Italy. But I agree that not everyone respect that, for example from Aliexpress I bet I could buy something illegal in Italy (a laser over a given power for example) and face no consequences, but that because it is not really easy to persecute someone in China.
Technically speaking, you should restrict contents that is not legal in a country. I fully understand that it is way more difficult than not selling something, in the end if you sell something you have an address while with a website you simply have an IP address that could not be the real one (think VPN).
So yes, in this specific case 4chan is the asshole of the situation: it they want that their site to be visible from UK they should respect the UK laws, even if, as I said, the law is beyond stupid.