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[seventhtiger]

Can Europeans say the same, or should they block Google and Facebook?

[justinclift → seventhtiger]

> ... or should they block Google and Facebook?

Probably yes? :)

[joshgel → justinclift]

Don't we just end up with a balkanized internet? A Euro-net, US-net, China-net?

I guess Canada goes in with Euro-net?

[justinclift → joshgel]

Well, what else do you suggest doing with companies literally damaging humanity? eg Facebook (easily qualifies), Google (somewhat)

[koheripbal → joshgel]

This is already happening.

[codedokode → seventhtiger]

Of course they should. Google and Facebook can be an invaluable source of intelligence information and threaten national security.

[abc-xyz → seventhtiger]

EU have already ordered Facebook (and others) to restrict data sent from EU to US. If US started banning EU tech companies (like China are doing) then it would of course make sense for EU to do the same to US tech companies.

This is of course unlikely to happen as EU and US fairly operate in the free market.

[drchopchop → seventhtiger]

Europeans are free to say the same, or negotiate acceptable GDPR-style data protection standards with the countries that receive their data (which in many cases has already happened).