> why are news organizations exempt from this rule in Europe? In the main, because the GDPR is an attack on advertising-supported services. You cannot build a

> why are news organizations exempt from this rule in Europe? In the main, because the GDPR is an attack on advertising-supported services. You cannot build a business on context-free ads given they pay somewhere between 1/100 and 1/10000 as much as ads that profile. Thus news orgs basically told regulators that the options were no free news (or realistically, the mess America is in, where real news orgs charge and the free ones are propaganda arms) or being allowed to do consent or pay. Because a paywall complies with all laws but has negative societal effects.