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> They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU. This seems like a deeply cowardly move. The courageous and virtuous move is to simply ignore
by jMyles 8y ago
> They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU.
This seems like a deeply cowardly move. The courageous and virtuous move is to simply ignore the law and continue as usual - to challenge the state to do what, if we all unite in support of each other and our basic freedoms, it will be unable to do.
- mcguire 8y agoAre you volunteering to pay for the lawyers and any fines?
- lettergram 8y agoOne thing I don't understand is how you prove your from the EU. I route most of my internet traffic through various VPNs. I'm in the U.S., but am increasingly more often hit with EU specific guidence. Prove I'm from the EU (or US) - you can't.
- icebraining 8y agoWhy would they need to prove that?
- gjs278 8y agothe EU says I owe them 10 trillion dollars. I have no assets in the EU. what next?
- jhasse 8y agoYou won't be able to enter the EU.
- kodablah 8y agoI completely agree if they can reasonably risk it. However for those that feel similarly about the expanse, overreach, and unjustness of the GDPR, are they similarly courageous in ignoring the law? If their motives are the exact same as here (i.e. about internet freedom from egregious oversight, not bottom line)? I'd say so in the interest of consistency, many would say not just because they like one imposition on the internet and not the other.
- thenanyu 8y agoThis seems like what folks have been complaining about of late - tech companies ignoring regulations.
- jMyles 8y agoThere's a difference between taking action to make society irregular (ie, violation regulations) and merely breaking the law. Sometimes the latter is the right thing to do.
- choot 8y agoIt's akin to Salt March. Break the law deliberately to demonstrate your non cooperation against an unfair law
- mindslight 8y agoThe problem is that corporations are fundamentally organs of the state. This inevitable authoritarian spiral was entirely predictable at the start of "Web 2.0", as it is a bad technology designed around centralizing third party intermediaries. Unfortunately, the lure of scalable riches caused most to look the other way.