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[–] 281 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Frankly this is a comically brilliant and absolutely outstanding example of engineering malicious compliance

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Sadly, will not actually be sufficient. They put the full burden of this shit on the site owner, all of it, without exception.

    You could host in a country like Cameroon, they won't give a shit and EU won't bother going after them. They could geoblock the whole country however.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Meh you just say “we don’t serve users from your country, we are not bound by your laws. users from the UK are breaking our tos”

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This already happens occasionally with the EU's GDPR.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    it does, but i don’t think they’re actually following GDPR… GDPR applies to residents of the EU; not where they are accessing the content from… technically, if an EU resident accesses a non-GDPR-compliant site while visiting the US (etc), the site is still legally obligated to follow GDPR

    it’d be way to difficult and probably ineffectual to enforce since the entity doesn’t necessarily exist in the EU (and they have bigger fish to fry, among many other reasons), but technically it’s there and they could probably do things like blocking executives from entering the EU or arresting them if they enter

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yup, that's what we're saying. Some sites don't work in EU because they don't want to comply with GDPR, so it's likely some sites will stop working in UK because they don't want to comply with their anti privacy laws.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    that’s not super convincing though… just like TOS isn’t a protection for murder and other serious crimes, it can’t protect against all things. i’m not sure how the law is worded, but it’s not quite so cut and dry

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's pretty sufficient. I'm not British, I don't sell products in Britain, I do not have British assets, and I'm compliant with all American laws. They can levy all of the fines they want but I'm not obligated to care.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    unless you ever want to visit the UK

    of course if you don’t ever want to, that’s fine… or if you’re small enough to fly under the radar

    but just because you have no presence doesn’t mean you’ll never have any presence

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They could geoblock the whole country however.

    The Great Firewall of TERF Island

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    we can compromise and just firewall jk rowlings house

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