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Re:EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274 by flexie on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:00AM (#19491348)
Let them block the European market for a few hours or days and nothing will happen, except that they lose advertisement revenue. Let them block for months, and European competitors will emerge.

But why on Earth would they do that? And why should they?

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Re:EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274 by scotty79 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:02AM (#19491363)
I think if you blocked Facebook, you'd have million people in Brussels tommorow making democracy very personal.
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Re:EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274 by MrGilbert on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:06AM (#19491393)
> Let them block for months, and European competitors will emerge.

I don't think so. You don't build a second Twitter, Youtube or Facebook in "a couple of months". Plus, all of them would need to deal with GDPR and the copyright directive. So, despite the technical effort, there is also a huge legal effort.

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