- Since "forever", laws apply to a specific PHYSICAL region (that's the basis for a concept of "government", be it democracy or other). These laws are enforced by "law enforcement forces", starting with "border law inforcement forces"
- Between "etatic entities" there is "treaties" agreed by parties
- But "the Internet" messed everything up: suddenly no law could be enforced because the was no VIRTUAL region with a "government" matching the PHYSICAL region
Different governement solved this problem with different solutions:
- China / Russia... used some kind of "Great firewall"
- US used some kind of "soft power" (owning the main infrastructure + main economic actors + extraterritorial laws)
Europe decided to find a mix between those: limiting US "soft power" with more rules (DSA, DMA), trying to develop European economic competitor... and limiting people abilty to escape to a "lawless internet with anonimity"