It was just a regulatory block, not an ISP-level government block which is what ...

barrkel · 2026-09-21T12:21:13 1789993273

What they do instead is scoop up execs when they travel through the US.

Peter Dicks, David Carruthers

State violence is used to ensure compliance, so that companies self-censor.

adventured · 2026-09-21T13:25:42 1789997142

Well that's pretty easily avoided then.

Don't travel through the US.

mitxela · 2026-09-21T22:30:48 1790029848

Any flight near the US can be diverted to the US. Russia uses this tactic too.

mitxela · 2026-09-21T11:16:10 1789989370

Because they didn't have to do an ISP block. If they had to, they would have.

petcat · 2026-09-21T11:27:38 1789990058

No they wouldn't have, because that's illegal in the US.

mitxela · 2026-09-21T12:03:52 1789992232

If that's the case and they need to, they'll just make it legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...

petcat · 2026-09-21T12:19:04 1789993144

Lots of goal post moving here.

The US government cannot compel ISPs to block websites. The only time it was tried was in 2022 to block some Israeli piracy site, and the federal court dropped the block within weeks after being hammered with first amendment lawsuits.

What we are seeing happening in Spain, France, and all across the EU, is literally impossible in the US.