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Comment by anymouse123456

8 months ago

Same concern here.

Also, the phrasing in both, but especially the HN title made me think Cloudflare chose to do something, but it turns out the French court is forcing all of them.

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dmitrygr  8 months ago

They could fight and choose not to. They could ignore this and choose not to. They deserve our judgement for that

  • jsnell  8 months ago

    They did fight it in court. They lost.

    I'm surprised you're so keen on having big tech companies intentionally ignore court orders and just break the law. Like, it's obviously something none of us should want.

    • ls612  8 months ago

      There's a really bad equilibrium where every country (or at least every country big enough to have BigTech workers in their country) figures out they can globally censor the internet by using the assets and people of those companies as leverage. Then we would have Americans having their internet censored by every foreign power except China and Russia, where BigTech have largely left.

      And it would all be done under the color of local law.

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    • charlieyu1  8 months ago

      Is a non-French company obligated to obey a French court order? I can probably name a few countries where most US companies won't enforce the court order from them

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  • anymouse123456  8 months ago

    The article is too thin to know what, if any fight was had.

    I suspect France could find a way to make things very difficult for them all.

    I suppose they could withdraw their service from the country in protest, but it's not obvious that would leave anyone better off.

    It's a difficult call and I'm not prepared to harshly judge an organization for complying with a legal, enforceable injunction.

  • anymouse123456  8 months ago

    If you want to judge someone so badly, why not go after the politicians who are creating these despicable policies?