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A US based non-profit news organization isn’t going to spend money to pay lawyers to ensure they meet a regulatory burden that doesn’t affect their core demogra
by plandis 6mo ago
A US based non-profit news organization isn’t going to spend money to pay lawyers to ensure they meet a regulatory burden that doesn’t affect their core demographic.
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- embedding-shape 6mo agoNeither are they gonna lose the potential of getting the data of any of their visitors, hence they're in this catch-22.
- wongarsu 6mo agoA burden that's proportional to how much user data you mine, process and/or share with third parties. Hence the irony
- Ylpertnodi 6mo ago> A US based non-profit news organization isn’t going to spend money to pay lawyers to ensure they meet a regulatory burden that doesn’t affect their core demographic. I like being covered by gdpr. Though I really cannot see any country's gdpr peops taking anyone in the US to court. A very simple "Fuck you" (along the lines of The Pirate Bay) would end any legal conversations. It would be different if the news organisation had an office in the EU. Anyway, i have a vpn, so....
- bombcar 6mo agoThe UK is not part of the US (yet?) nor the EU, but they're currently fining US companies - it doesn't surprise me at all that many take the easy answer of "ban them by IP".
- msla 6mo ago> The UK is not part of the US (yet?) nor the EU, but they're currently fining US companies Are they going after money they have in the UK or are they delusional enough to think they can successfully fine a company with no ties to the UK?
- bombcar 6mo agoThe latter - https://xcancel.com/prestonjbyrne/status/2034551030453539149 https://xcancel.com/prestonjbyrne/status/2034551030453539149 We await the larger rodent.