Business-like and non-commercial are not mutually exclusive. Atleast under german law, you are business-like if you offer a website beyond personal interest (i

Business-like and non-commercial are not mutually exclusive. Atleast under german law, you are business-like if you offer a website beyond personal interest (ie, a webpage about you, your family or your hobby). A forum is certainly business-like. The same forum can still be non-commercial, you don't have to make any money to fall under business-like. In total, a non-commercial entity, which is business-like, and has more than incidental EU users will fall under GDPR. >They've made a law that applies extraterritorially which requires knowledge of European cultural context to interpret correctly! I'm sorry, the US made extraterritorial laws that require US cultural context to interpret correctly. You don't get any special treatment here.