I am glad that the EU won't exempt small businesses from GDPR compliance. Here's why ... Everybody in the business knows that big companies become targets. Th

I am glad that the EU won't exempt small businesses from GDPR compliance. Here's why ... Everybody in the business knows that big companies become targets. Therefore for startups it's a land grab, aka break as many social rules as you can before getting big enough to get noticed. Just to give an example — Google's AdX platform has been anonymizing IPs given to participating advertisers at least since 2013 when I interacted with them. They also tightly controlled what kind of content and JavaScript you could serve on participating websites. For example we were not allowed to set our own cookies and even loading ad content dynamically (via JS) was a problem. The smaller ad exchanges, like MoPub and below? They didn't give a fuck. The most immoral companies around are the startups. The difference being that they don't have the resources or the reach of big companies. But that's no excuse. --- On progressive taxation, that's simply a tax on productivity, plain and simple. The majority being made of people that earn minimal to medium wage and of socially assisted folks, it's simply a way to increase taxes without pissing off the electorate. And it's choking the middle class and the small businesses. And that's because the big companies and the big earners have good lawyers and accountants that can come up with legal tax evasion schemes. The EU can't wait to fine the likes of Google and Facebook, as they've been evading a lot of taxes ;-)