I don't mean to endorse any strategy of blocking the EU, and I certainly don't mean to endorse the advertised service. I do think you overestimate the importanc

I don't mean to endorse any strategy of blocking the EU, and I certainly don't mean to endorse the advertised service. I do think you overestimate the importance of the EU to many Americans' views and lives. The Americans that you interact with--here or otherwise--are a disproportionately cosmopolitan sample, simply by the fact that they're talking to you. A lot of people in this country have no desire to do business in the EU. They have no desire to visit. Any regulatory action against them would reconfirm all their worst thoughts about "foreigners", and otherwise not change their lives. If they read what you wrote above, then they'd take away nothing, beyond maybe that your legal system is so terrible that no one knows what the laws are. And really, does this kind of extraterritoriality feel like a good idea to you? Roughly two hundred countries exist. Can you imagine a world where each of them tried to enforce rules of similar complexity to the GDPR against every human alive (because remember, I might be a lying North Korean)? Would you comply with every country's rules? Or would you decide what set of countries mattered to you, and write the rest off as enemy territory? I'm pretty sure the answer is the latter. I expect that many Americans will do the same here, and that their set will not include the EU. I agree with the high-level goals of the GDPR, and with increased privacy regulation in general. I'm disturbed to see how quickly people will take the position that "every website is subject to the laws of every country" when it serves an end goal they agree with. Do you think the UK could export its super-injunctions (court orders enforcing censorship) by the same mechanism? If not, on what legal basis? I understand that you don't intend to comment further. I'm interested to discuss with anyone who thinks this kind of extraterritoriality is a good idea, and to understand what countries and what laws you think this should extend to.