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>It would require the EU to implement a draconian Chinese firewall to bring into full effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_The_Pi

>It would require the EU to implement a draconian Chinese firewall to bring into full effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_The_Pirate_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_T... Quite a few countries in the EU have already ordered ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, and the EU last year made it easier for ISPs to do so. So the capability is there, and there's precedent. TPB responded by decentralising but that isn't an option for Facebook, they wouldn't dare to anything to get round a continental ban: and even if they did it would have to be 100% effective, if 50% of people can't figure out how to change DNS settings to get around ISP blocks then the other 50% will likely migrate to another platform too. I said to a friend a few weeks ago that I actually want to see FB get blocked in Europe. The shitshow would be glorious.

zerostar07 8y ago
> The shitshow would be glorious. At which point does the shit show turn around and reflect bad on the EU though? I m no fan or user of facebook but it would be too serious a restriction that only dictators have taken so far. EU's problems with facebook so far are taxation and privacy. The second is presumably solved by GDPR. Even if the first one is solved somehow, i feel these MEPs were more concerned about political implications.
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- lovich 8y ago
  If facebook does not submit to the law, then the EU's options are to either block facebook and seize their assets or let everyone know that its a free for all and laws dont matter. If you want a solid rule of law, you cant just let people openly flaunt it