Evans: EU and UK moderation laws force global compliance everywhere
Benedict Evans · Tiktok, Apple and Temu · Mar 13, 2024 · at 17:08
Benedict Evans discusses how regional platform and privacy regulations like GDPR exert extraterritorial effects across global cloud platforms.
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“The UK and the EU now have laws requiring, that basically require you to have what most people would consider like best practice content moderation, which is basically you've got to do what Facebook is kind of doing anyway. And applying it to country companies that operate in their territory in a way that effectively means you've sort of got to do it everywhere, and you saw that with GDPR”
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