It is that legislators made, in essence, a categorical mistake. Cyberspace is not geopolitical. Cyberspace is a topology, not a topography. This is obvious. But it is not so obvious to the digitally homeless who govern most countries.
Sovereignty is an odd and maybe useless concept within the digital world.
But the real test of sovereignty is not decency. It is money. Excuse my apparent digression to a treatment of money as yet another issue of bits and atoms. What follows is an incident that caused me to think about digital money in a new way. Two years ago, I was skiing in Klosters, Switzerland.