Comment by vincentmarle
5 years ago
I’m the opposite: I grew up in Europe but live in the States. There’s a ton of European websites and content I can’t access from here.
While this may suck for you personally I don’t think American companies (especially local news companies) should have to comply with invasive and expensive European privacy laws. Especially after forcing the entire world to adopt useless and annoying cookie walls. If you really want to access those articles you can use a VPN like the rest of the world does when they are accessing geo restricted content. GDPR has never really been a reasonable law to begin with.
Can you give some examples of European websites which are unavailable in the USA?
I don't believe they need to comply, either. Just stop saying people living in Europe are important. They obviously are not.
The argument in the post is that they are all from the same, large media company:
> At the bottom of each page: <https://www.nexstar.tv>
Nobody asked for cookie walls, which anyway don't bring sites into compliance. The cookie walls are erected by companies that are trying to shirk GDPR responsibilities.
They can avoid these responsibilities by refusing to serve content in the EU. That's their prerogative (although it is discriminatory, and thefore violates GDPR). And if they think they are out-of-reach for EU law, they can just ignore the GDPR; but watch out, similar regulations are coming to a jurisdiction near you.
Whether the GDPR is "reasonable" depends on your perspective; regulated parties always think that the regulations under which they trade are unreasonable.
[Edit: qualified the "their prerogative" bit]