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This already happens. Russia sent notices to GitHub about certain documents that were hosted there. China and Saudi Arabia just straight up block things they do
by jbob2000 8y ago
This already happens. Russia sent notices to GitHub about certain documents that were hosted there. China and Saudi Arabia just straight up block things they don’t like.
- RaleyField 8y agoYea, but this emboldens them because they can now point to EU and say that this is what normal countries do, long arm[0] people around. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-arm_jurisdiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-arm_jurisdiction
- vbernat 8y agoOr US with DMCA requests.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoIt would be much better for the EU to just block these sites that they think are violating EU citizen privacy rights. But they’d never do that, because their citizens still want to use the sites, so it’d be unpopular. And ineffective since people would just work around it. Apparently these pesky humans don’t care about their privacy like they should! Plus then the EU can’t levy billions in fines.