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fxbl0i | 6 years ago

Well, it depends. The EU doesn't like free speech; archive.org is not exempt (April 10th):

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-te...

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Wowfunhappy|6 years ago

Something I've been very unclear about for a long time: to what extent does the EU have jurisdiction over websites hosted and operated in non-EU countries, who don't do any business with the EU beyond serving web pages to EU IP addresses?

Presumably, if China asked Wikipedia to remove something, Wikipedia would say no, regardless fo whether doing so violates Chinese law... right? What makes China different from the EU?

This question applies to GDPR as well.

tropo|6 years ago

How is archive.org not exempt? They are outside of EU jurisdiction unless they made the mistake of opening an office over there, which would be trivially fixable by shutting it down.

vonmoltke|6 years ago

They are not exempt in the sense that the EU (or individual member states) will start blocking the Internet Archive if they don't comply.

yellowapple|6 years ago

Wouldn't the same also apply for the Wikimedia Foundation?