Authoritarianism is very tempting to people in power, but can be hard to sell in the physical world. In the digital world however…

Doesn’t appear to be any correlation with the success or revenue of the company really. They just do whatever they want.

IIRC, the US accusers even quoted US federal law at TPB in emails preceding this. They had probably just assumed TPB were US based and this response where how they found out.

I’m still salty about Sweden bending over about this, tho. Sovereignty is a lie.