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As an aside, I can see now that laws around the world like this will be what breaks up the internet, to the extent that isn’t already the case.



There is a risk. Google and Facebook won’t pull out of Europe. But to the degree there’s too much divergence of laws and regulations affecting smaller sites I could definitely see fragmentation happening.


I've oft wondered if we'll ever see any big discussions (i.e. Not just some random person's blog post) of post-Westphalian sovereignty applied to the Internet. Maybe GDPR is something that will kick that nest.




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