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Either "Our European visitors are important to us." or "This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensur

by stared 7y ago

Either "Our European visitors are important to us." or "This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."

oh_sigh 7y ago
Europeans decided that gdpr is a must. So their desires should be listened to. If the site isn't up to snuff, Europeans should be blocked until their wishes can be granted.
- yummybear 7y ago
  But don't pretend they're important to you when you can't provide a solution after almost two years.
  - oh_sigh 7y ago
    But they clearly are important to this Portland newspaper. If they weren't, they wouldn't have blocked the content in the first place.
  - drdaeman 7y ago
    They just forgot to put the "/s" there. You know, as in "Your call is important to us".
- wutwutwutwut 7y ago
  But if the site owners are so incompetent that they can't ensure this baseline for its US users, it shouldn't be shared here, right?
  - oh_sigh 7y ago
    US users as a whole haven't decided the same thing as EU users.
    - MGP625 7y ago
      That's a preposterous statement. You are acting like if we EU citizens were asked about it in a public campaign, advertised in media, like if it was election time, but that never happened. You are blaming citizens when the people that actually voted are likely never going to be users of that site, your protest is misaimed.
    - wutwutwutwut 7y ago
      The fact that US users have no real say regarding these kinds of things doesn't mean that we should actively support these incompetent companies. That would be absurd.
      - oh_sigh 7y ago
        What percentage of traffic to this local Portland news station do you think are European users? How does not catering to them, but respecting their self-declared privacy standards by not letting them see the site, make them incompetent? Also, I don't really understand how US users don't have a say in their government, but EU users do.
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by stared 7y ago

oh_sigh 7y ago

Europeans decided that gdpr is a must. So their desires should be listened to. If the site isn't up to snuff, Europeans should be blocked until their wishes can be granted.

yummybear 7y ago
But don't pretend they're important to you when you can't provide a solution after almost two years.
- oh_sigh 7y ago
  But they clearly are important to this Portland newspaper. If they weren't, they wouldn't have blocked the content in the first place.
- drdaeman 7y ago
  They just forgot to put the "/s" there. You know, as in "Your call is important to us".
wutwutwutwut 7y ago
But if the site owners are so incompetent that they can't ensure this baseline for its US users, it shouldn't be shared here, right?
- oh_sigh 7y ago
  US users as a whole haven't decided the same thing as EU users.
  - MGP625 7y ago
    That's a preposterous statement. You are acting like if we EU citizens were asked about it in a public campaign, advertised in media, like if it was election time, but that never happened. You are blaming citizens when the people that actually voted are likely never going to be users of that site, your protest is misaimed.
  - wutwutwutwut 7y ago
    The fact that US users have no real say regarding these kinds of things doesn't mean that we should actively support these incompetent companies. That would be absurd.
    - oh_sigh 7y ago
      What percentage of traffic to this local Portland news station do you think are European users? How does not catering to them, but respecting their self-declared privacy standards by not letting them see the site, make them incompetent? Also, I don't really understand how US users don't have a say in their government, but EU users do.

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