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Re:How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and... by madez on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:00PM (#16670227)
Well, not so much if the companies are really willing to.

They can block traffic coming from European IP addresses and require a legal document saying that the customer is not European.

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Re:How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and... by pandler on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:12AM (#16671137)
So, for all intents and purposes, shut themselves out of the European market?
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Re:How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and... by madez on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:00AM (#16671381)
Yes. "Obey our rules or stay out of our market" seems like a reasonable thing.
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Re:How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and... by pimmen on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:11AM (#16671535)
They can if they are willing to, but I doubt many companies are willing to.

"This is a tough one; spend a year rebuilding our backend and terms of services or shut ourselves out from a market of almost 500 million people (not including the UK) probably forever?"

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