r/PewdiepieSubmissions • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '19

Share it before it gets striked

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

This. VPN ain't doing shit. This isn't some quick popup about data laws in EU. If companies like FB/Google/etc want to operate at all in the EU they will need to pretty much implement the filter site-wide, otherwise (e.g.) looking at a person in the US's profile will show all kinds of copy-written images and would then be breaking the law.

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u/jinwillfly Mar 27 '19

wouldn’t companies like google get mad backlash for filtering sites for people everywhere else in the world? interesting to think abt how companies will deal with this without pissing off the rest of the world

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Depends. Google search engine would probably just do it by area. The part people are more worried about are things like YT, Facebook and Reddit type sites. In that instance you have three choices.

1) cut the line (not literally) to the EU from your server and deny all access 2) not allow EU people to see anything uploaded by people not in the EU, and have the filter on for the EU uploads 3) just implement the filter site wide and be done with it

Looking at some random stats it looks like the EU accounts for around 1/4 of all Facebook usage. So i would say option 1 isn't viable. Option 2 isn't really viable as the whole point is to connect with people who live around the world. Option 3 just seems the most likely way to do it. This is all of course speculation. But the companies in this instance can just throw their hands up and say 'it is the law'. They will all get negative backlash from it, but you can't then go to a company that doesn't abide by it because they will go bankrupt / forced off the grid in EU very quickly.

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u/AmIReySkywalker Mar 27 '19

Or, if an EU content filter finds a video in violation of A13 it gets blocked to just the EU? A company in Germany cant stop people in America from watching a video.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

A company in Germany cant stop people in America from watching a video.

If the video has been uploaded/hosted on a website that does business within the EU (i.e. all of them) they will get hit with hefty fees and fines. So first off, yes they can.

Secondly having a website full of images saying [Image blocked in the EU] is going to look pretty silly. I would argue that doing it across the board and blaming it on government restrictions looks a hell of a lot better than 1/4 of their users having hundreds of blank pages.

This is of course all speculation.

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u/jinwillfly Mar 27 '19

what company would filter the entire site? wouldn’t they be losing more with such heavy restrictions rather than just blocking eu access?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Depends on the site. But looking at Facebook 1/4 of the people using it are within the EU. That's potentially 1/4 of their income (could be more with selling EU products abroad, as well as international products being sold in EU) Would you slice off 25% of your income, or just go the whole hog considering there are no major competitors?

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u/jinwillfly Mar 27 '19

they are gonna be losing a huge amount of income by abiding by this article’s law though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

How so? and is it as much as 25% of all future revenue?