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That still does not make sense. Do you block your own citizens from accessing sites hosted in foreign countries if those sites/companies don’t comply with your

That still does not make sense. Do you block your own citizens from accessing sites hosted in foreign countries if those sites/companies don’t comply with your foreign law? Do you arrest your citizens for accessing those sites anyways or use VPNs to circumvent blocking? And there are dozens of other questions that raises, but you’re talking about what most people describe as totalitarian states.

coldtea 2y ago
>Do you block your own citizens from accessing sites hosted in foreign countries if those sites/companies don’t comply with your foreign law? Sure happens, including in the EU. There are some european anti-copyright-theft laws for example, and local ISPs are forced to block some warez/pirated ebook etc websites (you can bypass via VPN, but the "official" gateways/DNS block them). >Do you arrest your citizens for accessing those sites anyways or use VPNs to circumvent blocking? Not at the moment. And the logistics do not make it very easy (can't track each individual). But you can sure fine any commercial company accessing such sites, prohibit state infrastructure and any company doing work with your state from using them, etc. I'm not sure what the objection is. Do you mean "does not make sense" from a democratic/open society standpoint (as if european countries are a bastion of that, and such moves are beneath the legislators)? Or that it "does not make sense" from a technical aspect? For the latter, when there's a will, there's a way.