A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history

Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by tropo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:58PM (#19640533)

How is archive.org not exempt? They are outside of EU jurisdiction unless they made the mistake of opening an office over there, which would be trivially fixable by shutting it down.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by vonmoltke on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:17PM (#19640671)

They are not exempt in the sense that the EU (or individual member states) will start blocking the Internet Archive if they don't comply.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:48PM (#19640860)

Is there any precedent for EU countries blocking websites due to libel claims? I don't think what you're describing has ever happened.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by tropo on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:55PM (#19648886)

Cool. Let the EU have their own little mini-Internet in complete denial of the existence of wrongthink.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by yellowapple on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:32PM (#19640759)

Wouldn't the same also apply for the Wikimedia Foundation?

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by tropo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:46PM (#19641194)

I would hope so, but Wikipedia seems large enough to have servers over there.

If the EU can get away with this, what about North Korea and Saudi Arabia? Imagine a Wikipedia that can only say good things about Kim Jong-Un and doesn't contain any pictures of female faces.

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