IFTAS is happy to announce the public availability of our DSA Guide for Decentralized Services – a practical guide for small and micro services that are subject to the EU’s Digital Services A…
If you want to do business in the EU then you need to follow the EU rules.
Just like if you do business in the US you have to follow US rules, if you do business in China you have to follow Chinese rules.
Gdpr already showed that if you don’t want to you can geoblock EU countries and not have to comply.
Imagine Russia or Iran doing something similar and the problem becomes obvious
Those countries already have rules that if you break the site is blocked. Remember the /r/drugs fiasco from Reddit years ago?
Companies who do business in those countries generally have a dedicated arm to deal with those countries in the form of sovereign clouds or will hire a local company to be a front for them.
The article is aimed at people running fediverse servers, most of whom are not doing it as a business. Someone running a Lemmy server in Brazil shouldn’t have to know or care about EU laws.
Companies who do business in those countries generally have a dedicated arm to deal with those countries
So do bigger tech companies that do business in the EU, and that’s why they’re unambiguously subject to EU laws.
If you want to do business in the EU then you need to follow the EU rules.
Just like if you do business in the US you have to follow US rules, if you do business in China you have to follow Chinese rules.
Gdpr already showed that if you don’t want to you can geoblock EU countries and not have to comply.
Those countries already have rules that if you break the site is blocked. Remember the /r/drugs fiasco from Reddit years ago?
Companies who do business in those countries generally have a dedicated arm to deal with those countries in the form of sovereign clouds or will hire a local company to be a front for them.
The article is aimed at people running fediverse servers, most of whom are not doing it as a business. Someone running a Lemmy server in Brazil shouldn’t have to know or care about EU laws.
So do bigger tech companies that do business in the EU, and that’s why they’re unambiguously subject to EU laws.