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So it requires every website in the world to interact a certain way with every single EU visitor. So you’ve confirmed that it applies to every website in the w

So it requires every website in the world to interact a certain way with every single EU visitor. So you’ve confirmed that it applies to every website in the world. I don’t see how I can put a website up without being affected by GDPR. If I am affected the moment I put a site up, then it applies to every site. The internet is worldwide by default. I have no ability to prohibit people in the EU from seeing my site.

blitzar 5y ago
> So it requires every website in the world to interact a certain way with every single EU visitor. Yes > So you’ve confirmed that it applies to every website in the world. Here we go again > I don’t see how I can put a website up without being affected by GDPR. Dont serve it into the EU. So we have firmly established it does not apply to every site in the entire galaxy. > If I am affected the moment I put a site up, then it applies to every site. It doesnt apply if you dont serve it into the EU, so no it doesnt apply to every site in the entire galaxy. > The internet is worldwide by default. The default is 0.0.0.0 - the default is also unencrypted - the default is no password - the default is a lot of things that nobody in the world would do. > I have no ability to prohibit people in the EU from seeing my site. So you have the ability to publish a site, but not the ability to control that site, why am I not shocked. A bit like having a car and blaming everyone for not getting out of the way when you use it.
- jtbayly 5y ago
  Do you have any idea how contrary this is to the philosophy of the web? It's called the "internet" because everybody is interconnected on it. It's called the "World Wide Web" because when you post, it's available to the whole world. And somehow I'm an idiot because I expect 99.99999% of websites, including my own, to be available anywhere in the world? Go live in China if you like Great Firewalls so much.
  - blitzar 5y ago
    > Do you have any idea how contrary this is to the philosophy of the web? wtf is the philosophy of the web? Is this the laws of the internet? I dont live on the internet so the internet doest have jurisdiction over me. > It's called the "internet" because everybody is interconnected on it. internet - 1970s (denoting a computer network connecting two or more smaller networks): from inter- ‘reciprocal, mutual’ + network. So no, thats not why its called the internet. > It's called the "World Wide Web" because when you post, it's available to the whole world. Its like the world series of baseball then? it was actually called mesh first. Its called the world wide web now because tbl came up with that name for the first browser program to browse the mesh which for years only existed in europe. > Go live in China if you like Great Firewalls so much. So now you are now saying you dont expect 99.99999% of websites, including my own, to be available anywhere in the world. Why only 99.99999%? You want to exclude some? Which in particular? Why? Who gets to decide? You are proposing a bizarre situation whereby no country would have control over their own laws, if something is illegal in the US, say child porn, you just go to a website from a country where it is legal (and somehow that is legal now??). Somehow you seem to suggest it is a moral obligation that it be available to the entire world as well for fear of falling foul of the philosophy of the internet.
    - jtbayly 5y ago
      If the EU thinks my site is illegal, then the EU can block it. Or, alternatively, they can arrest people in the EU who they actually have authority over for visiting it. LOL Have fun on your little power trip. And good luck with it. Let me know once just 5% of the websites available in the EU stop using Google fonts. Lol

blitzar 5y ago

> So it requires every website in the world to interact a certain way with every single EU visitor. Yes > So you’ve confirmed that it applies to every website in the world. Here we go again > I don’t see how I can put a website up without being affected by GDPR. Dont serve it into the EU. So we have firmly established it does not apply to every site in the entire galaxy. > If I am affected the moment I put a site up, then it applies to every site. It doesnt apply if you dont serve it into the EU, so no it doesnt apply to every site in the entire galaxy. > The internet is worldwide by default. The default is 0.0.0.0 - the default is also unencrypted - the default is no password - the default is a lot of things that nobody in the world would do. > I have no ability to prohibit people in the EU from seeing my site. So you have the ability to publish a site, but not the ability to control that site, why am I not shocked. A bit like having a car and blaming everyone for not getting out of the way when you use it.

jtbayly 5y ago
Do you have any idea how contrary this is to the philosophy of the web? It's called the "internet" because everybody is interconnected on it. It's called the "World Wide Web" because when you post, it's available to the whole world. And somehow I'm an idiot because I expect 99.99999% of websites, including my own, to be available anywhere in the world? Go live in China if you like Great Firewalls so much.
- blitzar 5y ago
  > Do you have any idea how contrary this is to the philosophy of the web? wtf is the philosophy of the web? Is this the laws of the internet? I dont live on the internet so the internet doest have jurisdiction over me. > It's called the "internet" because everybody is interconnected on it. internet - 1970s (denoting a computer network connecting two or more smaller networks): from inter- ‘reciprocal, mutual’ + network. So no, thats not why its called the internet. > It's called the "World Wide Web" because when you post, it's available to the whole world. Its like the world series of baseball then? it was actually called mesh first. Its called the world wide web now because tbl came up with that name for the first browser program to browse the mesh which for years only existed in europe. > Go live in China if you like Great Firewalls so much. So now you are now saying you dont expect 99.99999% of websites, including my own, to be available anywhere in the world. Why only 99.99999%? You want to exclude some? Which in particular? Why? Who gets to decide? You are proposing a bizarre situation whereby no country would have control over their own laws, if something is illegal in the US, say child porn, you just go to a website from a country where it is legal (and somehow that is legal now??). Somehow you seem to suggest it is a moral obligation that it be available to the entire world as well for fear of falling foul of the philosophy of the internet.
  - jtbayly 5y ago
    If the EU thinks my site is illegal, then the EU can block it. Or, alternatively, they can arrest people in the EU who they actually have authority over for visiting it. LOL Have fun on your little power trip. And good luck with it. Let me know once just 5% of the websites available in the EU stop using Google fonts. Lol