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Extraterritorial jurisdiction or ETJ is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries. Any authority can, of course, claim ETJ over any external territory they wish. But for the claim to be effective in the external territory (except by the exercise of force) it must be agreed either with the legal authority in the external territory, or with a legal authority which covers both territories. When unqualified, ETJ usually refers to such an agreed jurisdiction, or it will be called something like "claimed ETJ". See also: Universal jurisdiction
Extraterritorial jurisdiction can apply internationally. For example, the United States has Status of Forces Agreements with many nations which give the United States jurisdiction over members of its military. Many countries have implemented laws which allow their nationals to be prosecuted by their courts for crimes such as war crimes and genocide even when the crime is committed extraterritorially. For example the United Kingdom has incorporated the International Criminal Court Act into domestic law. It is not retroactive so it applies only to events after May 2001 and war crime charges can be filed only against British nationals and residents. According to Peter Carter QC, chairman of the Bar’s human rights committee "It means that British mercenaries who support regimes that commit war crimes can expect prosecution". Prevent Genocide International, "a global education and action network established in 1998" claims that crimes such as genocide need to have extraterritorial jurisdiction so that people that commit such crimes can not find protection in a country that does not have such a law:
In Australia, extraterritorial jurisdiction of the various state and territory governments and government bodies is accommodated by the Australia Act 1986, although this is only one of many purposes of the Act.
Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users may subscribe to other users’ tweets – this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps (Twitter + peeps).
Since its creation, in March 2006, and its launch in July 2006, by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 190 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Extra-territorial organizations and bodies
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US $150 million (projected 2010)