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How do you process data about an international social graph only in the EU? When a friend in the EU posts something, should their post not be seen in the US?
by scarface74 3y ago
How do you process data about an international social graph only in the EU? When a friend in the EU posts something, should their post not be seen in the US? What happens when I have a group conversation between friends in the US and EU?
- asvitkine 3y agoWell, if the US and other countries don't have equivalent laws, you can move everything to the EU. Of course, this doesn't work if another country has such a law. But if it's a smaller country, then it doesn't have as much leverage (e.g. Facebook could accept the smaller fine or pull out).
- scarface_74 3y agoHow do you move “everything” to the EU including messages sent to US citizens? What if the messages are in a group of people in the US and the EU?
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoWhat is your better suggestion: The world follows lax US law? Or anything goes, no law? These are not acceptable options to the EU.
- scarface_74 3y agoI don’t know, maybe let adults make their own informed decisions and weigh the tradeoffs versus benefits based on their own priorities instead of depending on the government?
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoYou seem to have picked " Or anything goes, no law" which as stated above, is not acceptable to the EU. Naïve libertarian takes like "let adults make their own informed decisions" are all fine and well, but when there's a track record of their harm that can be pointed to already, it is, as stated, a non-starter. You do know how that worked out so far, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo... https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb... Your position is an ideology, and it is one with a poor track record; you're welcome to it, but thankfully you're not going to force it on Europe.
- scarface74 3y agoSo should we now pass laws that outlaw everything that can cause you harm - cigarettes? Alcohol? Gambling? Sugar? Do you also support the “war on drugs”? How much power do you want to give the government because you are incapable of making your own decisions?
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoThis is a very silly straw man argument, and I'm getting whiplash from the continual changes of topic in search of a valid point.
- scarface74 3y agoHow so? The contention was that the government should protect intelligent adults because they are too dumb to use their own judgment. But adults are intelligent enough to use alcohol in responsible way (which statistically is clearly not the case), but not intelligent enough to use a social media platform?