It's not so much against the spirit of those laws, but an attempt by the EU to apply its laws outside the jurisdiction of the sphere of absurdity that is the EU

It's not so much against the spirit of those laws, but an attempt by the EU to apply its laws outside the jurisdiction of the sphere of absurdity that is the EU. This is not at all about "where the data resides", as you claim, because the EU is not attacking the data where it resides -- it leaves that alone, on their original servers -- but instead where the data is indexed.