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By "pull out" do you mean Facebook would have to stop doing business with advertisers in France? As long as the servers are in another country, the French gover
by homonculus1 7y ago
By "pull out" do you mean Facebook would have to stop doing business with advertisers in France? As long as the servers are in another country, the French government would have to create a Great Firewall to stop its citizens from accessing that content.
- isostatic 7y agoYes, it means that facebook can't operate a company in france selling services in france and expect to ignore french law.
- tvxtergd 7y ago"As long as the servers are in another country, the French government would have to create a Great Firewall to stop its citizens from accessing that content." Not really. How to avoid Great Firewall, while blocking FB: France could expect Facebook to deny requests for content originating in France, regardless of where FB servers are. No need for a Great Firewall; make FB implement the firewall. Legal justification (if not ethical): The server locations are irrelevant because the data has cross the border into France. Enforcement (how to force FB to block itself): Easy: make the executives criminally liable. Also, anyone working on FB infrastructure could be held criminally liable. France is a big and important country, they have heft to get their way from companies like FB.
- fock 7y agoGeoblocking is common and if they are doing business in a country it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to do it as well as for the state taking measures to enforce non-compliance (though criminal liability of corporate executives is something we won't see anytime soon I guess). What's not reasonable is to force them to block people in other countries (and also those taking significant efforts to conceal their identity) - at least there is no international law (compared to international deals) justifying that anyhow.