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The EU doesn't make (much) real law per se. Unlike the USA, the EU doesn't really have a criminal system, or federal laws etc. The EU makes member states (which are countries and states) implement a law. This law would only apply to owners of websites. They don't block websites.


This gives member states a bit of extra freedom - some implement the laws in stricter or looser manner than the european parlament may have intended.

Some countries even refuse to implement them, as the Swedish goverment did with the Data Retention Directive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive). See

http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&j...

(scroll down to implementation) for a while. Then they complied.




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