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From the original article, > Offering services within the EU Hosting service providers are covered by the Regulation if they "offer services within the EU". >
by theptip 6y ago
From the original article,
> Offering services within the EU
Hosting service providers are covered by the Regulation if they "offer services within the EU".
> The main repercussion of this is extraterritoriality: that providers established outside the EU can still be in scope of the Regulation.
And "hosting services" seems to include running a blog with comments, not the narrow technical definition we'd be familiar with.
So a cursory read suggests that yes, a personal blog would be theoretically targetable.
FWIW, it seems unlikely that they are actually going to go after personal blog operators, and that the intent here is really to get sites like FB / Reddit / Parler that are based outside of the EU, but that show content to users inside the EU. But I'm not seeing anything that actually prevents them from pointing this weapon at the little guys. (Not an expert in this area so please let me know if I'm thinking about this wrong).