Such requirements would be diametrically opposed to the Internet’s founding principles of frictionless, borderless access to information. Like Russia and China, Europe would be blocked from the rest of the global Internet, because new services that are unable to build European data centers would be locked out.
但许多欧洲人却要求实施严厉的隐私或数据局域化规则，以此作为签署新贸易协议的先决条件。这样的要求与互联网的基本原则——无摩擦、无阻力地获得信息完全背道而驰。与俄罗斯和中国一样，欧洲将被阻挡在全球互联网之外，因为无法建立欧洲数据中心的新服务都会被踢出欧洲。