[fxbl0i]

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...

[Wowfunhappy]

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]

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]

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.

[Wowfunhappy]

Is there any precedent for EU countries blocking websites due to libel claims? I don't think what you're describing has ever happened.

[tropo]

Cool. Let the EU have their own little mini-Internet in complete denial of the existence of wrongthink.

[yellowapple]

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

[tropo]

I would hope so, but Wikipedia seems large enough to have servers over there.

If the EU can get away with this, what about North Korea and Saudi Arabia? Imagine a Wikipedia that can only say good things about Kim Jong-Un and doesn't contain any pictures of female faces.