[kodablah]

I was under the impression that of you don't do business with EU users, you are not subject to the rules. This seems like the only reasonable way to not do business with EU customers. Other thoughts aside, if they wanted to stop doing business in the EU, how should they?

[jacquesm]

> Other thoughts aside, if they wanted to stop doing business in the EU, how should they?

Erase everything.

[kodablah]

I suppose for most thinking rationally, it seems like "stop doing business in the EU" is different than "make it like you've never done business in the EU". Taken to its conclusion, which Instapaper surely won't, it's not going to be easy to punish a business that has cut ties with the EU because of what they collected before. Granted it appears that with the law, like its predecessors, practicality of reasonable enforcement takes a backseat to intent.

[jacquesm]

The rational approach to legislation is to make a (timely) effort to comply.

When you're told the highway near your house has a new speedlimit you can either obey the speed limit, use a detour (which will still be slower on account of it being longer) or you can take your car off the road in huff.

The first one is the only solution that makes sense.

[kodablah]

If we're going with these analogies, there are other approaches if you disagree with the speed limit. You might protest the speed limit if you lived there (hopefully without being berated while you do so) or if you don't live there you might avoid the place with unreasonable speed limits.