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I haven't exactly done a scientific survey here, but what is interesting is to click the links and see what response comes back (I'm in the UK, still part of th

I haven't exactly done a scientific survey here, but what is interesting is to click the links and see what response comes back (I'm in the UK, still part of the EU). Here are some of them: * Sorry, this content is not available in your region. * The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated to false. * Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. " * 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons * Error code 16. This request was blocked by the security rules * Apologies! The site you are trying to visit is not available in your area. Please note, to comply with GDPR we have purged our newsletter lists and databases for anyone located within the European Union. Thank you for your interest. * 403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied. * We're sorry you’re not able to access the site at this time, but this is a temporary measure to ensure we can best protect your data under new privacy regulations. We value your support; thanks for your patience and we can't wait to have you back! I find it interesting that some present the problem as a technical problem whereas others explicitly mention a region problem or even GDPR I also found a couple of places where the sites are in fact accessible, e.g. instapaper.com The vast majority of the sites seem to be US local news sites, so perhaps to them providing access for EU citizens isn't really a key goal

seszett 8y ago
> The vast majority of the sites seem to be US local news sites That's even more weird since they are explicitly not covered by GDPR, because their target audience is obviously not based in the EU (and they most probably don't do any business in the EU either, so are completely out of reach as well). It seems to me like they are the very websites for which this exemption was intended.
- josteink 8y ago
  > It seems to me like they are the very websites for which this exemption was intended. That doesn't help much when every US arm-chair lawyer (like the techies here on HN) spends all their time causing paranoia and telling everyone how even access logs are illegal now under GDPR, and how they will be brought into bankruptcy by the EU. Ofcourse the business-people are going to panic when all they hear are their techies are telling them that EU is going to shut them down. Whatever crappy legal regime these US techies will be stuck with in the future, one thing is certain: they brought it onto themselves.
donohoe 8y ago
>> 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons That was mine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

seszett 8y ago

> The vast majority of the sites seem to be US local news sites That's even more weird since they are explicitly not covered by GDPR, because their target audience is obviously not based in the EU (and they most probably don't do any business in the EU either, so are completely out of reach as well). It seems to me like they are the very websites for which this exemption was intended.

josteink 8y ago
> It seems to me like they are the very websites for which this exemption was intended. That doesn't help much when every US arm-chair lawyer (like the techies here on HN) spends all their time causing paranoia and telling everyone how even access logs are illegal now under GDPR, and how they will be brought into bankruptcy by the EU. Ofcourse the business-people are going to panic when all they hear are their techies are telling them that EU is going to shut them down. Whatever crappy legal regime these US techies will be stuck with in the future, one thing is certain: they brought it onto themselves.

donohoe 8y ago

>> 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons That was mine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451