[kinsomo]

> Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue/profit comes from the US and it's problematic to "do business" in the EU or China, why wouldn't I want to just cut access off rather than dealing with potential hassles?

Because you would rather grow your market?

[taysic]

If you run a free website that depends on targeted ads to make money, you might want to expand to the EU but now you'd need to totally change your business model to do so. For some that would basically mean inventing a new company because their service is not the type people would pay for. So in this case, it may not be worth it.

[eyeinthepyramid]

There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe.

[kinsomo]

> There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe.

The world doesn't have uniform GDP per capita. Potential European customers have more money to spend than most of those other potential customers. If you're looking for a new market, Europe is a juicy one.