Re:Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy
by gambiting on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:22AM
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No,because technically if I run a server in the US, and a german user connects to my website, I should not be bothered by the german laws,and there is nothing the German government can make me do with my website. If they don't like their citizens accessing my server,they can block it inside their national network, but saying that I should conform to their laws is preposterous. I imagine that everyone happily complies with Saudi Arabia's requests to remove pictures of women driving, from every single website on the Internet, because that violates their laws. Internet does not know boarders - I run a server, if you want to access it from within your country - cool,but I am not going to bother with your country's laws,because it wouldn't make any sense to do so.
Nations all over the world block content that violates their laws... from the Tiananmen Square Wikipedia page being blocked by China to megaupload.com being blocked by the U.S.
Certainly Germany cannot prevent you from running a server in India and publishing to Indians, but they certainly can prevent you from broadcasting to Germans, and if you want to do so, you have to play by their laws.