The decade in which countries have decided that they want to require companies to invest significant amount of money into ensuring they are protecting user's pr

The decade in which countries have decided that they want to require companies to invest significant amount of money into ensuring they are protecting user's privacy or other rights if those companies want to operate in those countries. The countries enforcing those policies have a lot of defenders here, though I think most of them are ignorant of both what those policies require of companies and of what they guarantee to users. I may be portraying that negatively, but I'm not sure that I think those policies are wrong (certainly the common understanding of them is wrong). I think it's either naive or disingenuous to claim that there's no reason for companies to block regions with these policies.