While I think we are probably on the same side of this fight (I am, in a word, anti-GDPR), your assertion that HN has a pro-GDPR bias feels off. I think if the

While I think we are probably on the same side of this fight (I am, in a word, anti-GDPR), your assertion that HN has a pro-GDPR bias feels off. I think if the past few months have shown anything, it is that GDPR is a highly divisive issue. There have been a host of both negative and positive submissions regarding it, many of which have had spirited discussios in the comments. This is the Internet, so there is plenty of hot air on both sides, but with some digging I’ve also found nuance and rigor in the arguments. As for your point of self regulation, while I feel GDPR is a disaster in it’s implementation, I think it has come about as a reaction to the lack of sufficient self regulation on the part of tech companies. It’s simply become de rigeur for companies to attach a mandatory, 10 page, tiny font in the footer, flagrantly anti-consumer, adhesive contract to every website and app and then to shirk all responsibility when they screw up. Not exactly the model of self regulation.