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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by zerostar07 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:11PM (#17296121)
Europeans at large dont seem to care for freedoms like that. I mean we have blasphemy laws in many countries and not really free speech. We seem to love the american internet though, perhaps because we can have some actual freedom of speech there.
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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by gowld on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:53PM (#17296644)
Your national/EU laws apply to your activity on the American Internet.
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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by zerostar07 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:43PM (#17299061)
Not if you re not using your real identity, and even then its more complicated than if the companies were local. They would simply be shut down.
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