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by Teocali 670 days ago
You need to lodge a complaint. It’s time consuming so almost nobody do it.

And generally, it came with a slap of the wrist, and the company put up the banner.

For a site to be blocked, it need repeatable, multiple and not correctibles infractions.

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Has it ever happened, even once? Can you cite something? I'm genuinely curious. Also genuinely skeptical.
There has never been a case where it was escalated so far.
This. Each country have an administrative entity (in France, that’s CNIL, Commission National sur l’Informatique et les Libertés - National Commission on computer and liberties, roughly) in charge of this kind oh things. You can lodge a complaint to them and they will investigate and eventually, if needed (don’t think it was ever needed, they can bring the problem to a judge.
I have a very difficult time imaging that companies in China (or even the US) will even read a message in French, much less respond to it.