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- It is called the "WORLD WIDE web", not the "local web". If you go to a place you ought to respect its fundamental purpose, no matter if it is a physical place

- It is called the "WORLD WIDE web", not the "local web". If you go to a place you ought to respect its fundamental purpose, no matter if it is a physical place or a virtual one. - We live in a highly globally interconnected society. Actions everywhere on the planet have consequences everywhere on the planet. If the US fabric of society blows up after their previous clinically insane president incited violence for years, that WILL have consequences for Europe. If only for the thousands of nukes they have and the trillions they spend on military and invading unstable regions. Also remember that we're being asked to spend tons of money on the NATO to aid in defending US interest. It is thus of very HIGH interest for me as a European to know WTF is going on in the US because it may end up killing us all, and even if not we still pay for their shenanigans. So denying us knowledge of affairs we're *very* involved in is rude. - My country's military has been in Afghanistan for 20 years because of the US invasion. Nobody knows for how long we will be target of terrorist attacks for that. And as a thank you for all of this, I can't even read your local news sites. I wonder how much the US would be enraged if that situation were reversed?

RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
> It is called the "WORLD WIDE web", not the "local web". So who gave the EU the right to be making rules for the entire “WORLD WIDE” web? If the EU has the right to be making laws for their jurisdiction, then websites in other jurisdictions also have the right to ignore the EU laws and exclude EU members.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
  Why would they have to obey the laws if they're not part of the EU? They could just leave their website online as is, no need to block it if the laws don't apply to them anyway.
  - setr 6y ago
    GDPR applies if you collect data from an EU citizen[0]. However, I'm not clear how they would enforce/collect it -- perhaps by treaty? Or if you show up in the country after the fine has been applied and left unpaid. So blocking EU consumers is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, as per the worldview of the EU. You're either in it, or you're not. [0]https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago

> It is called the "WORLD WIDE web", not the "local web". So who gave the EU the right to be making rules for the entire “WORLD WIDE” web? If the EU has the right to be making laws for their jurisdiction, then websites in other jurisdictions also have the right to ignore the EU laws and exclude EU members.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Why would they have to obey the laws if they're not part of the EU? They could just leave their website online as is, no need to block it if the laws don't apply to them anyway.
- setr 6y ago
  GDPR applies if you collect data from an EU citizen[0]. However, I'm not clear how they would enforce/collect it -- perhaps by treaty? Or if you show up in the country after the fine has been applied and left unpaid. So blocking EU consumers is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, as per the worldview of the EU. You're either in it, or you're not. [0]https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/ https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/