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If a court orders it, what are they going to do? Do you think Google would give up the EU market over Scihub?


You mispelt give up the entire internet. If every country dictates how every server in every other country is supposed to function then it will be pretty much impossible for anyone to operate.

Any filtering gets to happen inbound to that country unless you want to only view content that is legal in turkey, Israel, Pakistan,Uzbekistan, south africa, Russia, the US and insert another 60 names here.

We already have a way to handle different DNS results for different sub sections of the populace. They can run their own DNS servers and mandate that their users use them blocking alternatives if they so desire.


Returning different query results bases on the IP of the query sender is not magic. Couple that with location bases routing to thw nearest instance of a DNS server responding at 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you have nice and reasonably reliable segmentation based on the user's location. Nothing about that tech is magic and most of it is likely already implemented. So your doomsday scenario does not hold.


They would definitely obey yes, they have offices in Paris. In France they regularly have to filter some results too since companies don't hesitate to sue for libel against negative results on first page.


yeah people keep touting "internet routes around censorship" and other platitudes with no grounding in reality, meanwhile European are already under illiberal regimes where the information if thoroughly controlled by the wealthy and the powerful.

we are literally at the point where European citizens need to engage in doublespeak on certain topics for the fear of harassment from people abusing the legal system, and it's getting words faster by the day




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