EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

this reads as both unfeasible or contradictory to existing laws (eg section 230).

this feels like another example of law makers making law w/o understanding what they're proscribing

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

contradictory to existing laws (eg section 230).

Section 230 is US law; this article is about the EU and GDPR.

Operating in multiple countries often requires dealing with contradictory laws.

But yeah, in this case it also seems unfeasible. As the article says:

There is simply no way to comply with the law under this ruling.

In such a world, the only options are to ignore it, shut down EU operations, or geoblock the EU entirely. I assume most platforms will simply ignore it—and hope that enforcement will be selective enough that they won’t face the full force of this ruling. But that’s a hell of a way to run the internet, where companies just cross their fingers and hope they don’t get picked for an enforcement action that could destroy them.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

But that’s a hell of a way to run the internet, where companies just cross their fingers and hope they don’t get picked for an enforcement action that could destroy them.

the number of startups that i've worked for that operate like this would probably make you laugh. lol

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