Last wednesday I attended the discussion-meeting of the Dutch Internet Society called: “the unworkable internet”. It was about a Dutch ISP who was almost extradited to India for hosting the site of a foundation that was critical towards child-labor practices in some Indian companies… Especially scary about this is that no check or veto by an European judge is possible before extradition.
A defamation case in India, and a request from them is enough, even if no case like this would be possible in Europe because of the protection of free speech (and other human rights) we enjoy here. The treaties the Dutch (and many other western nations) have with countries like India often still stem from the 19th century, when the political and especially the technical situation was completely different. The closest thing one could do back then without setting foot on Indian soil was probably defamation over telegraph-wire. So surely there should change something here (and there)...
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