[jikbd]

Let’s not forget TERREG, which already makes it illegal in practical terms for individuals to have an open forum or blog in Europe

> The EU just passed TERREG yesterday without a vote that requires anyone running a website with user generated content (a blog with comments, a forum etc.) and if they have significant EU user base to establish legal presence in the EU and have an officer responsible for deleting content with 1 hr SLA. That's out of reach for most of people. You cannot even block your site for EU traffic, because EU users can use VPN.

[…]

> On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, which included:

>The one-hour rule: a legally binding one-hour deadline for content to be removed following a removal order from national competent authorities;

[xxpor]

Why can't someone outside the EU just respond to the EU presence requirement with "lmao no"

[mwint]

I’m guessing we’re within a couple years of a Great EU Firewall. Then they could protect their citizens from these dangerous American websites.

The Internet is being torn apart by governments.

[_hilro]

Quite funny you should say that as I had just written this comment on the other related thread:

> I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet. EU & US & every other region in the world are different.

> As it stands, the global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

> I think the internet as it stands inhibits Europeans forging their own path.

So for me personally, my then youthful naivety of supporting connecting the globe and freedom etc. has now shifted over the past 10 years to leaning towards an EU only internet.

> The Internet is being torn apart by governments.

The internet shouldn't be the international waters of the world and it shouldn't be the United States internet.

[plandis]

I really hope such anti-free speech is not an opinion shared among the majority of Europeans. The world will be much worse off when the free flow of ideas is restricted.

[selfhoster11]

Why shouldn't the internet be the international waters of the world? Surely, the entire point of the network is to be international in every sense? (Including negative ones, I guess)

[rmdashrfstar]

> The global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

How so?

> The internet shouldn't be the international waters of the world…

Why?

[guitarbill]

Not OP, but the major websites and services are all US based. That means US copyright laws and takedowns, US data protection (or lack thereof, which the GDPR tried to solve), arbitration, mile-long EULAs, etc

[inter_netuser]

Just make your own major websites and services?

Every other country has their own ecosystem, EU seems to be capable enough.

[em-bee]

what constitutes significant user base?