Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by jackjeff on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:39AM (#19084422)

EU laws do not apply to the rest of the world. No need to spin up TOR. Put your site in California that should be enough. I don't see HN caring a rat ass about EU law, in the same way that HN did not ask for a publishing license from the Chinese department of communication.

The irony is that the French are the first ones to complain about the hegemony of sites like Google (burning tons of tax payers' money on useless projects like the Quaero search engine), but when they're given an opportunity to shoot themselves up in the foot repeatably, and to kill ANY hope of having ANY European site that EVER competes with the US then they seize on it. It's the apex of stupidity.

I'm going to write an angry mail to my French representative tonight.

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by growt on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:06AM (#19084904)

I completely agree with your second paragraph. It's the same in germany.

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by deadbunny on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:52AM (#19084816)

> Put your site in California that should be enough

What if you want the strong(er) privacy protections of the EU?

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by CorvusCrypto on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#19087219)

Then just wait till next year when CCPA comes into effect.

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by anticensor on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:23AM (#19094035)

CCPA will not be enough. US needs a GDPA (General Data Protection Act).

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