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> I suppose you can object and campaign for the EU to setup its own Great Firewall or something along those lines and only allow companies to operate within its
by kinsomo 8y ago
> I suppose you can object and campaign for the EU to setup its own Great Firewall or something along those lines and only allow companies to operate within its borders which adhere to stringent rules around posted imagery. Good luck with that.
Europe isn't China, and the distribution of those photos isn't an existential threat to the government, so a Great Firewall is overkill.
Facebook has assets, operations, and revenue that originates in Europe that could be easily targeted with little controversy to gain compliance. If that doesn't work, Europle could always try to make the executive decision-makers personally liable. I'm sure Zuckerberg wants to be able to visit Europe in the future without being arrested.
- ghaff 8y agoI actually tend to agree. At this point, I don't think there's so much space between the US and the EU's positions on privacy issues that large corporations can't find ways to reconcile. That said, I don't take it as a given that will always be the case. I can imagine future US companies offering services that run sufficiently afoul of current or future regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions that it makes sense to just not offer them there.