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Actually, Europe reasoning is quite simple: - Since "forever", laws apply to a specific PHYSICAL region (that's the basis for a concept of "government", be it
by olivierduval 3y ago
Actually, Europe reasoning is quite simple:
- Since "forever", laws apply to a specific PHYSICAL region (that's the basis for a concept of "government", be it democracy or other). These laws are enforced by "law enforcement forces", starting with "border law inforcement forces"
- Between "etatic entities" there is "treaties" agreed by parties
- But "the Internet" messed everything up: suddenly no law could be enforced because the was no VIRTUAL region with a "government" matching the PHYSICAL region
Different governement solved this problem with different solutions:
- China / Russia... used some kind of "Great firewall"
- US used some kind of "soft power" (owning the main infrastructure + main economic actors + extraterritorial laws)
Europe decided to find a mix between those: limiting US "soft power" with more rules (DSA, DMA), trying to develop European economic competitor... and limiting people abilty to escape to a "lawless internet with anonimity"
- betaby 3y ago> - China / Russia... used some kind of "Great firewall" Also add to the list UK, DE, CH, IT, BG, probably others in Euro area. Implementation varies, but most of the time DNS level blocking, sometimes plain old ACL to block IP. Varies on country-per-country basis. Source - I consult ISPs across the world (fortunately not about blocking).