Comment on Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia
KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy can’t you restrict usage if you don’t comply with local laws? Why can companies like Facebook restrict usage of their new features like Threads in the EU then? Or some US news network restricting access from the EU?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They can’t. The EU is constantly fining them and suing them for not complying with EU law.
The EU law says that they can’t force cookies on EU residents. It doesn’t say that they can’t accomplish that by geoblocking.
As for Wikipedia, maybe they’re legally allowed to block all of Texas and Florida, maybe they’re not.
Regardless, such a move would be the opposite of the mission and function of Wikipedia: to be a free source for unbiased information available to everyone.