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They can stop you from having business in EU. A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of s

by yulaow 8y ago

They can stop you from having business in EU. A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. If you have a big share of profits from them you will lose everything. Maybe for you it's ok, but for many business it would be a total disaster with a fine on top of it (if they want to get back the right of serving eu users) very big considering your "malicious intentions" would be evident

adventured 8y ago
> They can stop you from having business in EU. ... Maybe for you it's ok, but for many business it would be a total disaster I already covered that in my post. I very clearly said that you should only comply if you have business interests in the EU. A Canadian recipe site is unlikely to have to be concerned with such a thing; that's similarly true for the majority of all sites on the planet. They can freely disregard EU laws, so long as they have no business interests in the EU. The majority of all sites will never comply with GDPR, they will never concern themselves with it at all: because it does not apply to them if they're strictly operating outside of the EU. If 18 US states decide to implement their own unique privacy laws, you know what isn't going to happen? Every site on earth outside of the US is not going to rush out and try to comply with every aspect of those 18 unique privacy laws. Because that would be insane. > A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. I also covered that in my post. The sole means for the EU to practically enforce its policies globally, is to put up a Chinese firewall and very aggressively censor everything that people in the EU can see. If the people of the EU want to live like that, that's their problem. If you're a big service, of course they can specifically target you for DNS blocking, and that still only matters if you're doing business in the EU.
michaelmrose 8y ago
Promote your users to use an openvpn service. Hell give them a month free with a good service. If appropriate consider rolling it into your service. For an additional 5.99 a month enjoy secure unfettered access to sites all over the world.
Aengeuad 8y ago
>A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. They could do that, but it's certainly not within the scope of the GDPR - member states can issue fines and penalties, but if you have no assets in the EU that is the extent of enforcement i.e., none at all. The GDPR makes no mention about Chinese style firewalls or blocking European customers off from your business either, it is simply legislation for getting European businesses or foreign businesses operating within the EU to respect data protection laws. The more realistic alternative to foreign businesses not cooperating with the GDPR is that European businesses will voluntarily choose to not do business with you as they'll share liability for your non-compliance.

by yulaow 8y ago

adventured 8y ago

> They can stop you from having business in EU. ... Maybe for you it's ok, but for many business it would be a total disaster I already covered that in my post. I very clearly said that you should only comply if you have business interests in the EU. A Canadian recipe site is unlikely to have to be concerned with such a thing; that's similarly true for the majority of all sites on the planet. They can freely disregard EU laws, so long as they have no business interests in the EU. The majority of all sites will never comply with GDPR, they will never concern themselves with it at all: because it does not apply to them if they're strictly operating outside of the EU. If 18 US states decide to implement their own unique privacy laws, you know what isn't going to happen? Every site on earth outside of the US is not going to rush out and try to comply with every aspect of those 18 unique privacy laws. Because that would be insane. > A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. I also covered that in my post. The sole means for the EU to practically enforce its policies globally, is to put up a Chinese firewall and very aggressively censor everything that people in the EU can see. If the people of the EU want to live like that, that's their problem. If you're a big service, of course they can specifically target you for DNS blocking, and that still only matters if you're doing business in the EU.

michaelmrose 8y ago

Promote your users to use an openvpn service. Hell give them a month free with a good service. If appropriate consider rolling it into your service. For an additional 5.99 a month enjoy secure unfettered access to sites all over the world.

Aengeuad 8y ago

>A EU court can just order a whole-EU dns block for your site and any related urls and you would be incapable of serving any person from EU. They could do that, but it's certainly not within the scope of the GDPR - member states can issue fines and penalties, but if you have no assets in the EU that is the extent of enforcement i.e., none at all. The GDPR makes no mention about Chinese style firewalls or blocking European customers off from your business either, it is simply legislation for getting European businesses or foreign businesses operating within the EU to respect data protection laws. The more realistic alternative to foreign businesses not cooperating with the GDPR is that European businesses will voluntarily choose to not do business with you as they'll share liability for your non-compliance.