Whoa, no it's not that trivial by a long shot. To be GDPR compliant they would need to train all their staff who deal with customer data, audit their entire inf

Whoa, no it's not that trivial by a long shot. To be GDPR compliant they would need to train all their staff who deal with customer data, audit their entire infrastructure to map all the places where they store customer data and draft GDPR-compliant privacy notices for all of that data, as well as establishing the processes for dealing with all the lawful GDPR customer requests that they'd start getting. This is very, very expensive, and requires retaining external consultants and lawyers who are experienced in GDPR compliance. I fully sympathize with all foreign companies that have no meaningful REVENUE from the European Union who instead of putting themselves in possible legal jeopardy just decide to block traffic from the EU and be done with it. It's the honorable thing to do, and frankly Europeans should be looking in the mirror and be asking if our good intentions of consumer privacy protection are actually leading the stifling of our digital landscape due to over-regulation. A good indication to me that a law is not working is if it is so over-reaching that very few companies (even within EU) are able to comply with all of its requirements.