Reply to post: Good news for browser companies

Is EU right to expand 'right to be forgotten' to Google.com?

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Good news for browser companies

" Someone reads it inside the EU, a copy of that Californian website thereby being published inside a browser in the EU, and EU law does apply"

and the browser, therefore, is doing the publishing - it is rendering the content readable, which is more than many newspaper publishers ever do - so the nice browser companies all just became publishers.

With all the legal responsibilities and obligations thereof ....

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