[s73v3r_]

"I believe users should have control of their data."

If you believe the only way they should be able to do that is to become a digital hermit, then you don't really believe that.

"When you say “no thanks”, that’s a user exercising control over their data, and is an action which necessarily involves no governmental body."

What about Facebook's shadow profiles?

"a business simply cannot operate in ways that are A) not opposed to the safety or health of their users"

There is nothing about the GDPR that opposes this. Not a one.

"B) potentially necessary to succeed in the markets in which they participate."

This most assuredly is not part of the GDPR. If the only reason your business has a chance of succeeding is by ignoring user privacy and ignoring the safety of user data, your business does not deserve to succeed.

[ovao]

I'm sorry, but we can't have a productive discussion if you're simply going to mischaracterize what I've said and make false assertions as to what my own beliefs are.

I've been cordial to this point, but if cordiality isn't there on both sides, there's no point.

[s73v3r_]

I've not mischaracterized what you've said. While you can say you believe that a user should have control over their data, if the only way you believe that should be exercised is through the "take it or leave it" model, then, in practice, that's not giving users control over their data.