Cisa amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad

[IronFist]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/22/cybersecurity-cisa-bill-amendment-foreign-nationals
That's more than just retarded. They are going to jail foreigners for the cyber crimes committed elsewhere. How is it even possible? Are they going to run after some guy from Kongo who pirated a movie somewhere on Canadian torrent tracker? I don't think it's going to work. More than that, that's something that doesn't correspond to the idea of democracy. America is turning into a global police state indeed.

[Taco Truck 🚚]

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Makes sense to me.  What's the problem?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

US law has from the days of the Founders included provisions for criminalizing actions undertaken overseas by foreign nationals if there is an American impacted in someway. This is hardly new.  Whether it is workable is a separate question.

[Badger]

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Makes sense to me.  What's the problem?

[YaBoyNY]

They're not going to be wasting resources going after guys in the Congo who torrent stuff.

They're going to be going after the guys who kill your net while you wank.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I hate whenever congress makes almost any law about the internet.

[pbrower2a]

It's most likely to be used against someone who commits a horrible crime against a US citizen -- like murder, torture, enslavement, or rape -- when the legal system elsewhere is uncooperative or non-existent. Think of ISIS country. Or against drug traffickers on the ground that someone in Russia who manages a drug trafficking ring and knows enough to avoid America is committing crimes against Americans by trafficking in drugs with the knowledge that the end users of such drugs are Americans. Maybe money-launderers.