[jakemal]

> a legal case can be filed and it can go through the courts before the ban-hammer falls

Once a community that cannot be shut down is declared illegal, what happens? One of the major points of decentralized communities is that there is no effective "ban hammer" to shut them down.

[lenkite]

Then it is declared illegal and simply continues to exist. If this is truly a major crime (loss of life, major financial loss), then governments have many means outside of technology to shut stuff down: old-fashioned detective work, cross-national police work, enforcement of treaty obligations or even para-military action in severe cases.

Right now, a sneeze can ban you on the cloud. And the bans are just a click away - and in many cases not even that.