EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unlawful content worldwide

Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by mytailorisrich on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:18AM (#21156837)

It's not about a law being internationally valid.

It's about courts in the EU imposing things on EU hosts. Facebook has legal subsidiaries in the EU.

Companies that are present in several countries do have to employ lawyers to comply with each country's law.

It's like when the SEC fines an EU bank. It's not that the SEC has jurisdiction in the EU, it's that the EU bank has a subsidiary in the US and does business there.

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Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by fock on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:21AM (#21157357)

I repeatedly asserted I have no problem with hosts having having to comply to national/EU/trade-deal law.

But in my opinion compliance is reached if they just do geoblocking in the areas affected by the law/delete content if it's originating there? If someone uses a VPN he's basically traveling to another jurisdiction for all practical purposes?

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Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by mytailorisrich on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:25AM (#21157389)

Compliance is reached once you have complied with what the court has ordered :)

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Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by fock on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:30AM (#21158056)

And you don't care if the court has the standards of an autocracy?

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