&gt; In meat-space, the social norm is clear<p>Local social norm, in your meat-space neighborhood, sure. Also, norms from the other places, if you&#x27;ve did the research, or if their norms are close enough to what you&#x27;re used to so your behavior is compliant or at least tolerable (for a foreigner).<p>Still, nerd social awkwardness issues aside, I tend to believe there there are quite different social norms in drastically different meatspace areas.<p>On the Internet it&#x27;s only worse. You can&#x27;t even tell which country&#x2F;jurisdiction the site you plan to visit belongs to (no, addresses from whois may be a continent away from the legal system site ToS mentions). I neither think there are universal laws regarding this (to best of my knowledge, there aren&#x27;t), nor that you can always know whenever it&#x27;s legal to click that link you saw someone had posted on IRC or not, or read that link&#x27;s contents, or save it.<p>(Ever thought that &quot;liking&quot; a post on a social network can be a criminal offense punishable with a few years in jail? In some countries it could be.)