Comment by denton-scratch
5 years ago
That may well be "magical thinking"; but nobody said that costs imposed on businesses don't deplete consumers' wallets, eventually.
There's a libertarian, anti-regulation line of thought to which some USAians seem to be particularly prone.
Europe, and especially the EU, runs on regulations. Without all kinds of regulations, the EU would fall apart. Most people here understand that. They also understand that imposing costs on businesses results in marginally more expensive products (although GDPR compliance isn't expensive, especially if your gesture towards the GDPR is just a cookie wall).
Europeans would rather have the GDPR than be able to read American news sites. American news sites would rather block European readers than comply with the GDPR.
Everything is working as intended, no?
No.
The GDPR requires sites not to discriminate. It is a violation to refuse to serve users because they are in Europe.
Laws in Europe apply to European subjects only, not the entire world. Europe has no authority to force a non-European company to serve it's subjects.
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King Canute required the waves to stop. How did that work out for him?
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