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It’s also negligible if you block EU access. The people that own the content get to decide which approach to take.

I for one am a little tired of EU citizens telling me something doesn’t have compliance costs when I’ve been in the room when outside counsel couldn’t agree if a brochure ware site was compliant because the logs contained IP addresses.

You may wish that the regulations didn’t make the choice of blocking EU citizens the more palatable but that doesn’t make it true.



GDPR seems straight up common sense to me, but ...

At times it seems like the common sense behind the GDPR is not -in fact- entirely common to American (lawyers) somehow.

That can't be entirely true though, since some US states seem to have been considering similar laws recently.

Color me confused by it all. (see also an earlier comment I made in a similar conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29126413 )




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