So let's say a country enacts the two hypothetical laws:
- Any operating website which renders services to the greater internet must make its service available to traffic originating from this hypothetical country.
- Pornographic materials fall under obscenity laws
Now any website offering pornographic materials ends up in a catch 22; the only way to avoid violating a law of that country is to comply with the latter law, and not serve pornographic materials (even if one's own country has no laws outlawing it).
You see how this can be problematic given the global nature of the internet, with hundreds of countries each enacting their own laws? You shouldn't need to be able to solve the world's most complex constraint satisfiability problem to operate a website; you should only be required to comply with the laws in your own country, while making no active attempts to violate laws in other countries.
You see how this can be problematic given the global nature of the internet
You seem to be thinking that there's some sort of old sci-fi robot here that if you present it with a logical contradiction it will start yelling DOES NOT COMPUTE and its head will explode.
I suggest you stop thinking in those terms; laws don't work like computer programs, and the sooner you understand that, the better off you'll be. Legal frameworks can deal just fine with contradictions. And, yes, a sufficiently-malicious government could pass combinations of laws designed to force someone to commit a crime.
Yet somehow the world continues to work. And if there's a foreign jurisdiction with laws sufficiently odious to your business, well, you just stay home. Typical extradition treaties require that the alleged act be criminal in both countries in order to extradite for it, so as long as you stay in a country whose laws match what you want to do, or which has no extradition, you're good (this also is why so many criminal hacking cases are dead ends trailing off into countries that won't extradite to wherever the victims were, but this appears to be the outcome you want).
Now any website offering pornographic materials ends up in a catch 22; the only way to avoid violating a law of that country is to comply with the latter law, and not serve pornographic materials (even if one's own country has no laws outlawing it).
You see how this can be problematic given the global nature of the internet, with hundreds of countries each enacting their own laws? You shouldn't need to be able to solve the world's most complex constraint satisfiability problem to operate a website; you should only be required to comply with the laws in your own country, while making no active attempts to violate laws in other countries.