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Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by tvxtergd on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:41AM (#21157024)
"As long as the servers are in another country, the French government would have to create a Great Firewall to stop its citizens from accessing that content." Not really.

How to avoid Great Firewall, while blocking FB:

France could expect Facebook to deny requests for content originating in France, regardless of where FB servers are. No need for a Great Firewall; make FB implement the firewall.

Legal justification (if not ethical):

The server locations are irrelevant because the data has cross the border into France.

Enforcement (how to force FB to block itself):

Easy: make the executives criminally liable. Also, anyone working on FB infrastructure could be held criminally liable.

France is a big and important country, they have heft to get their way from companies like FB.

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Re:EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unla... by fock on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:16AM (#21157309)
Geoblocking is common and if they are doing business in a country it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to do it as well as for the state taking measures to enforce non-compliance (though criminal liability of corporate executives is something we won't see anytime soon I guess).

What's not reasonable is to force them to block people in other countries (and also those taking significant efforts to conceal their identity) - at least there is no international law (compared to international deals) justifying that anyhow.

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