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I love this comment. Waiting for people to take the bait and reply to you!

• downandout 9y ago
  Take the bait? I’m not saying anything controversial. A large percentage of websites are directed at the home country of their owners anyway, and EU traffic is often incidental and worthless to them. A US dentist or doctor likely has no interest in receiving appointments from people in the EU, for example. An online store based in the US, who would have to charge outlandish shipping rates to ship to the EU, is unlikely to get orders from the EU and thus should have no interest in that traffic. An online message board where nurses in a US city talk to each other probably wouldn’t want to spend the money to comply with GDPR even if the occasional nurse from the EU might pop in with an interesting comment every now and then. So EU traffic means nothing to any of the above example sites, yet all of them will be massively exposed under the GDPR. If I ran a web hosting company, I’d offer EU IP blocking as an optional, free service.
  • Jommi 9y ago
    You don't think it's controversial to tell business to block the other half of the civilized world?