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    There has been some strong suggestions that this is essentially unenforcable in the EU Commented May 11, 2018 at 14:54
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    Yea, I read that one too in my research for my answer I linked. Not just in dutch courts, also belgian, austrian courts, I believe german courts would have a field day too with their already strict laws. So I believe for europe there should be a seperate way of handling things. also because a large variety of developers are from Europe(guessing this from the survey insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018, where there were 10.000 more qualifying people from Europe than US) there would be a large overlap in jurisdictions where there are complaints/issues/ Commented May 11, 2018 at 15:03
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    I agree here; everything is still written from a very American point of view. Whilst I understand that that's where SO is based, they're going through all this trouble of updating the ToS for a European law (the GDPR). No moderator has, as far as I could find in any meta post about the ToS/arbitration, responded to concerns from European users. I'd like to hear a response there, because as far as my non-juridical view is now, I have only seems arguments saying that the ToS are still not going to hold up in Europe, despite the new wordings. Commented May 14, 2018 at 9:45
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    I dunno, seems to be an all together good thing that Europe protects it's people from anti-consumer things like opt-out arbitration clauses. Commented May 17, 2018 at 14:58
  • I'm a US citizen living in the US who has previously logged into stack exchange from Germany. Does this mean that I could introduce or join a class action suit in Germany? Commented May 21, 2018 at 5:52
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    @bendl When in Rome, sue like the Romans do ... Commented May 21, 2018 at 10:10
  • @bendl Read the paper i analyzed in the linked answer. I think the european laws also cover non citizens visiting. But a lot of variants of the same laws as they evolved were covered so I'm not 100% certain Commented May 21, 2018 at 10:50