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Can't wait for future nightmare letters coming from Saudi Arabia when they find moral indecency on my web site or China finding imperialist propaganda that needs addressing. This will be used as a precedent for every other control freak pushing their values onto us. What happened to free and open internet?

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This already happens. Russia sent notices to GitHub about certain documents that were hosted there. China and Saudi Arabia just straight up block things they don’t like.

Yea, but this emboldens them because they can now point to EU and say that this is what normal countries do, long arm[0] people around.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-arm_jurisdiction

Or US with DMCA requests.

It would be much better for the EU to just block these sites that they think are violating EU citizen privacy rights.

But they’d never do that, because their citizens still want to use the sites, so it’d be unpopular. And ineffective since people would just work around it. Apparently these pesky humans don’t care about their privacy like they should!

Plus then the EU can’t levy billions in fines.

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