Yeah, the the language can get pretty damn sophisticated but if page after page of definitions and sub-definitions are used to box scenarios in until they can be considered infallible there's still the issue of enforcement. Just as you say with Libya, tptb can go to extreme lengths to get their way, will they go as far as creating a scenario to justify crippling global communications? I honestly don't know but it's not inconceivable and that honestly scares me as it's hard to come up with a peaceful scenario for that and what do a few million lives matter when the stakes are power?
But that's getting a bit ahead of the point, laws are only relevant where they can be applied and the law knows its limitations and knows that trying to extend its reach too far can bring its legitimacy into question. Trying to enforce authority on something like crypto is extremely risky, if its something people want then even the very best case scenario is heavily tarnished with fascism and as crypto is ever evolving it's far more likely to end in humiliation.
There was once a little company that thought they could take on open source in the courtroom called SCO. Well, not such a little company actually, quite a big company, back in their hayday they probably had somewhere around the same kind of market and share as Oracle has now. They tried to claim rights to Linux but couldn't win that battle and they had Microsofts might behind them, it wiped them out.
SCO bankruptcy was a beauty...
Old Marxist Antonio Gramsci famously said, "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will," so I also chose to be an optimist. Also, it's fun to think about those issues so I do not think they need to cripple global communications in order to go after Bitcoin Nodes, Dash Masternodes, Ethereum Nodes etc., as these are heavily concentrated anyway. And how many are in total, less than 20K?
Sure, I am aware that if Amazon would be forced to take them down others will pop up elsewhere, but we deal with a monstrous hydra that kills left and right in order to survive. I am in Berlin at the moment and just this morning had a conversation with an immensely intelligent person. "I am not sure anarchy would be better," was her comment on my statement that the system "they" created is pure evil and that needs to be dismantled. Well, I replied, it requires a system (Churches or Kingdoms in medieval ages; corporatism today) to send people to kill and die in foreign lands.
"The people, if left to their own faculties, would not just organize and invade Iraq, or, in your case, Russia
, without being brainwashed first."
It left her think. P2P decentralized society that is emerging in front of our eyes is the first thing in ages that makes me an optimist without needing efforts of a will.