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Maybe Spotify can go first. Then CERN can limit its "web sites" to only work from within its member states
by jarek 11y ago
Maybe Spotify can go first. Then CERN can limit its "web sites" to only work from within its member states
- jacquesm 11y agoWhat does CERN have to do with Spotify and EU member states?
- jarek 11y agoI'm mocking the idea of an Internet (though I rather suspect VikingCoder meant HTTP) Blackout for Europe by pointing out European HTTP services.
- VikingCoder 11y agoNo, I didn't mean HTTP. I meant Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ebay, Bing.
- jarek 11y agoGoogle, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ebay, Bing use HTTP. Which as I'm sure you are aware was created by a European, working at a European institute. Unless by Internet Blackout you meant blocking NNTP and Gopher?
- VikingCoder 11y agoThey also use TCP/IP. Remember where that was created? Neither of which is relevant AT ALL to the fact that they are being hit with ridiculous laws that hurt companies - small ones in particular - and therefore hurt consumers.
- jarek 11y agoAh yes, TCP/IP, the technology that spurred founding of Ebay just 4 years after it was created ;) Non-EU small companies will not be hurt. Companies not collecting personal data won't be hurt. Companies that don't have an office in the EU won't be hurt. EU companies won't be hurt as long as they don't mix personal data between EU and US - and knowing what we do now, why would you? If you want to talk about things that hurt companies, you could start with NSA severely handicapping US datacentre industry.