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> Fuck you too Maybe I'm wrong in this assumption, but to me the section you quoted sounds like they're saying "we're not GDPR compliant, so we can't participa

> Fuck you too Maybe I'm wrong in this assumption, but to me the section you quoted sounds like they're saying "we're not GDPR compliant, so we can't participate in that market right now"; it's not a "fuck you, Europe" kind of thing. But hey, you know what they say about assumptions.

ryandrake 5y ago
OPs quote was full of the usual contentless corp-speak. "We are engaged on the issue...", "committed to looking at options..." and "We continue to identify..." These phrases are a nice, pleasant and important-sounding way of saying "We aren't actually doing anything at all, despite GDPR having been adopted over five years ago."
- whydoyoucare2 5y ago
  Ok? It's a local newspaper from Florida, why should they be expected to do extra work to support Europeans? You're not entitled to access their site. These local papers are struggling to keep the lights on to serve their communities. YOUR government decided to make GDPR this stringent, and the European Parliament ignored warnings about exactly this happening. You can get your reporting second hand from a European source that follows your laws, at cost to you, or be left out of the loop because your continent expects the rest of the world to follow their laws. The choice was made in Europe. You reap what you sow.
  - philjohn 5y ago
    It's a local newspaper, but owned by the third largest newspaper publisher in the US and uses a shared CMS.
  - simion314 5y ago
    I would be fine with a bit more sincerity, something like: "we don't care about privacy, so go somewhere else". Or if you want to translate it you can put a message like "the EU market is too small for us to even consider implementing non tracking ads, we are sorry we can't sell your data anymore!"
    - throwErrorAway 5y ago
      I think that's a little unfair to assume that the reason they don't want to bend over backwards for the GDPR is because they're selling your info. Maybe they are, maybe they simply decided the overhead cost of having lawyers validate everything their teams do isn't worth it. I don't know and I can't say I really care, because that's not what this is about. In my (admittedly limited) experience on HN, it seems like a lot of the time the response towards "how does the GDPR affect the rest of the world" from users in the EU is "if you don't want to follow it, you can stay out of this market- no one's forcing you to do business in Europe." And that's fine. But OP's response to that exact explanation from the company was "fuck you too." You can't have it both ways. It's perfectly okay to dictate the laws of your own marketplace- I absolutely believe this and frankly I'm grateful for the GDPR. However, it's pretty childish to tell someone to find a different market if they don't like the rules of yours and then get angry when they do exactly that. I'm not usually an angry person but good grief, grow up OP.
- jandrese 5y ago
  > committed to looking at options The option they are looking for is the full repeal of the GDPR. Otherwise they aren't going to bother to do anything.

ryandrake 5y ago

OPs quote was full of the usual contentless corp-speak. "We are engaged on the issue...", "committed to looking at options..." and "We continue to identify..." These phrases are a nice, pleasant and important-sounding way of saying "We aren't actually doing anything at all, despite GDPR having been adopted over five years ago."

whydoyoucare2 5y ago
Ok? It's a local newspaper from Florida, why should they be expected to do extra work to support Europeans? You're not entitled to access their site. These local papers are struggling to keep the lights on to serve their communities. YOUR government decided to make GDPR this stringent, and the European Parliament ignored warnings about exactly this happening. You can get your reporting second hand from a European source that follows your laws, at cost to you, or be left out of the loop because your continent expects the rest of the world to follow their laws. The choice was made in Europe. You reap what you sow.
- philjohn 5y ago
  It's a local newspaper, but owned by the third largest newspaper publisher in the US and uses a shared CMS.
- simion314 5y ago
  I would be fine with a bit more sincerity, something like: "we don't care about privacy, so go somewhere else". Or if you want to translate it you can put a message like "the EU market is too small for us to even consider implementing non tracking ads, we are sorry we can't sell your data anymore!"
  - throwErrorAway 5y ago
    I think that's a little unfair to assume that the reason they don't want to bend over backwards for the GDPR is because they're selling your info. Maybe they are, maybe they simply decided the overhead cost of having lawyers validate everything their teams do isn't worth it. I don't know and I can't say I really care, because that's not what this is about. In my (admittedly limited) experience on HN, it seems like a lot of the time the response towards "how does the GDPR affect the rest of the world" from users in the EU is "if you don't want to follow it, you can stay out of this market- no one's forcing you to do business in Europe." And that's fine. But OP's response to that exact explanation from the company was "fuck you too." You can't have it both ways. It's perfectly okay to dictate the laws of your own marketplace- I absolutely believe this and frankly I'm grateful for the GDPR. However, it's pretty childish to tell someone to find a different market if they don't like the rules of yours and then get angry when they do exactly that. I'm not usually an angry person but good grief, grow up OP.
jandrese 5y ago
> committed to looking at options The option they are looking for is the full repeal of the GDPR. Otherwise they aren't going to bother to do anything.