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Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by Creationer on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:53AM (#19816687)
If those companies are based in the US, EU, or China, sure.

The whole GDPR, Content Filtering thing seems like a massive opportunity for a savvy, unregulated South American, African or Asian company to take advantage of.

Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by cortesoft on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:54AM (#19818960)
Then you need yours ads to also come from those areas, and I am not sure the ad dollars are there, especially if they are being shown to people in western countries.
Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by asdff on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:59PM (#19821250)
Why can't a US company buy ad space on a South American website?
Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by cortesoft on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:49PM (#19822961)
Because that American company would be held to American laws, and if the point of the South American company was to skirt American laws, that isn't going to work.
Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by AsyncAwait on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:40AM (#19817124)
> The whole GDPR, Content Filtering

Why lump privacy protections together with upload filters as if they're both bad. If you service doesn't abide by the GDPR, I'd try to avoid it. On the other hand, upload filters are a disaster and not at all comparable to GDPR, not in terms of what they do to the end-user, not the burden they place on service providers.

Re:Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr by mises on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:05AM (#19818020)
Because it's not for you to pick and choose which laws you wish to follow. If a firm starts in the third world, it also likely cannot handle the regulatory burden of gdpr.

For what it's worth, it would only have to be out side Europe. If a firm has no office in Europe, it would be difficult for Europe to enforce its laws. Extradition requires it be a crime in both countries.