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For internet websites, if a website can be accessed from France, then the French law applies. It's under the same principle that Megaupload was shut down by th

by rvnx 2y ago

For internet websites, if a website can be accessed from France, then the French law applies. It's under the same principle that Megaupload was shut down by the US, despite the company was not connected to the US or operating from the US. This is why some websites block visitors from France (e.g. newspapers not willing to bother with GDPR for example) or that some sites block visitors, registrations and payments from the US (e.g. investment websites). Here Telegram refuses to respect French law. Whether they are ethically right or not, it's one debate, but in the meantime, the detectives want to gather elements. It's the standard way that police talks there. They don't send lawyers. Instead they put you in custody for interrogation. A bit rude, I recognize it, though relatively common. Even the French CEO of Uber was sent in custody there.

AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> The law is quite simple (and it's not just in France), if a website can be accessed from France, then the French law applies. The internet is global. Any website can by default be accessed from any country. Are you proposing that anyone with a website is subject to the laws of every country? Notice that this is impossible to do; the laws of different countries will require mutually exclusive things. > It's under the same principle that Megaupload was shut down by the US, despite the company was not connected to the US or operating from the US. You're citing an extremely controversial practice to justify the same. The question is what should be the case and is reasonable, not what some country has managed to get away with through some questionable shenanigans or might makes right. > At least to show: "we tried our best". This is just a fig leaf. IP location services are notoriously unreliable and trivially bypassed. Anybody in any location can choose the IP address they make a request from. Also, fragmenting the internet in this way is poison and should be discouraged as a matter of policy. You're effectively asking websites to block foreign countries by default because they don't have the resources to hire a lawyer for every country that exists to see how to comply with their laws.
- Isinlor 2y ago
  The ship has long sailed. EU decided that our laws will be applied maximally - to all EU citizens regardless of their location and for everyone within our territorial control. And if other countries like USA have conflicting laws like Patriot Act then companies can be even forced to divest from EU or split their businesses so that USA branch can not enforce USA spy laws in EU. Google Privacy Shield.
  - AnthonyMouse 2y ago
    > The ship has long sailed. EU decided that our laws will be applied maximally - to all EU citizens regardless of their location and for everyone within our territorial control. Ships that have sailed can still be sunk. > And if other countries like USA have conflicting laws like Patriot Act then companies can be even forced to divest from EU or split their businesses so that USA branch can not enforce USA spy laws in EU. How is this supposed to apply to a small business with one employee?

by rvnx 2y ago

AnthonyMouse 2y ago

> The law is quite simple (and it's not just in France), if a website can be accessed from France, then the French law applies. The internet is global. Any website can by default be accessed from any country. Are you proposing that anyone with a website is subject to the laws of every country? Notice that this is impossible to do; the laws of different countries will require mutually exclusive things. > It's under the same principle that Megaupload was shut down by the US, despite the company was not connected to the US or operating from the US. You're citing an extremely controversial practice to justify the same. The question is what should be the case and is reasonable, not what some country has managed to get away with through some questionable shenanigans or might makes right. > At least to show: "we tried our best". This is just a fig leaf. IP location services are notoriously unreliable and trivially bypassed. Anybody in any location can choose the IP address they make a request from. Also, fragmenting the internet in this way is poison and should be discouraged as a matter of policy. You're effectively asking websites to block foreign countries by default because they don't have the resources to hire a lawyer for every country that exists to see how to comply with their laws.

Isinlor 2y ago
The ship has long sailed. EU decided that our laws will be applied maximally - to all EU citizens regardless of their location and for everyone within our territorial control. And if other countries like USA have conflicting laws like Patriot Act then companies can be even forced to divest from EU or split their businesses so that USA branch can not enforce USA spy laws in EU. Google Privacy Shield.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago
  > The ship has long sailed. EU decided that our laws will be applied maximally - to all EU citizens regardless of their location and for everyone within our territorial control. Ships that have sailed can still be sunk. > And if other countries like USA have conflicting laws like Patriot Act then companies can be even forced to divest from EU or split their businesses so that USA branch can not enforce USA spy laws in EU. How is this supposed to apply to a small business with one employee?