<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zirgs</author><text>This is the problem with the so-called &amp;quot;multipolar world&amp;quot;. There aren&amp;#x27;t any other democratic poles. So - if you&amp;#x27;re a dissident or a whistleblower and you&amp;#x27;re too high-profile - you have nowhwere to go.&lt;p&gt;Snowden has to live in Russia, because pretty much all Western countries would put him on the first plane to the USA if he ever tried to enter.&lt;p&gt;My country extradites even our own citizens to the USA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.&lt;p&gt;Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you&amp;#x27;ll find that American law is in fact &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; relevant, with local governments often bending over backwards to accommodate US legal provisions. Copyright, financial regulation, and international travel are some of the areas where this is usually apparent, but far from the only ones.</text></item><item><author>GordonFremen</author><text>Right, but the DMCA is an American law. It&amp;#x27;s irrelevant in France.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, I think this is for a case of any dispute of terms and particular formulations. The French version, I suppose, is the authoritative original, and a judge or an arbitrator might call for a certified translator to make exact sense of the letter&amp;#x27;s demands.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>All of this because they don&amp;#x27;t want you to download Guizmo - Dans ma ruche (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ssyoutube.com&amp;#x2F;en691rT&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ssyoutube.com&amp;#x2F;en691rT&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Not the first time they&amp;#x27;ve spammed DMCA takedowns either: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lumendatabase.org&amp;#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because+Music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lumendatabase.org&amp;#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In comically French fashion, their complaints also include the same message in French just in case someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English. I wonder if this is just a bunch of amateurs hired by the French label or if they actually pay legal professionals to spam these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request</title><url>https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Pretty much yeah. The US is quite strong at throwing its weight around its areas of influence to enforce laws favorable to their corporations, otherwise they put you on the naughty list (US Special 301 report) and you could start seeing trade restrictions come your way. It&amp;#x27;s how they managed to get RARBG taken down all they way in Bulgaria.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.&lt;p&gt;Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you&amp;#x27;ll find that American law is in fact &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; relevant, with local governments often bending over backwards to accommodate US legal provisions. Copyright, financial regulation, and international travel are some of the areas where this is usually apparent, but far from the only ones.</text></item><item><author>GordonFremen</author><text>Right, but the DMCA is an American law. It&amp;#x27;s irrelevant in France.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, I think this is for a case of any dispute of terms and particular formulations. The French version, I suppose, is the authoritative original, and a judge or an arbitrator might call for a certified translator to make exact sense of the letter&amp;#x27;s demands.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>All of this because they don&amp;#x27;t want you to download Guizmo - Dans ma ruche (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ssyoutube.com&amp;#x2F;en691rT&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ssyoutube.com&amp;#x2F;en691rT&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Not the first time they&amp;#x27;ve spammed DMCA takedowns either: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lumendatabase.org&amp;#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because+Music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lumendatabase.org&amp;#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In comically French fashion, their complaints also include the same message in French just in case someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English. I wonder if this is just a bunch of amateurs hired by the French label or if they actually pay legal professionals to spam these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request</title><url>https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/</url></story>