[takeitto]

I am European browsing from a non-EU IP. Seems to me a blanket ban on EU IPs is both draconic and ineffective.

As for SV seeing GDPR as more of a hindrance: SV was build on the freemium model of gathering as much data as possible. Companies were funded under the assumption that their user growth would lead to valuable data stores.

GDPR and an increased privacy aware public are existential threats to these companies, as there is little chance to pivot to a non-data-use company. You have to start over.

I hope we will look back at these companies as ugly centralizing dinosaurs, as little by little, the consumers realize the power they gained back (or always had) over their usage and data, does not justify these business models to exist.

(Also, GDPR, even when seen as an opportunity, _is_ a hindrance to implement. Regulation in response to market evils is known to be heavy-handed and clumsy).

[guelo]

> ban on EU IPs is both draconic and ineffective

It doesn't matter it's ineffective. The block means they're complying with GDPR's requirement that they not target Europeans.

[takeitto]

But they still process European user data if they do not block my IP. So they are not complying at all with GDPR's main requirement, just a poorly singled-out subclause.

[snissn]

Do EU laws protect you in China? I feel, partially, that going through a proxy means you are more under the discretion of the laws of the country with which the last proxy is operating under. Do you disagree? It's all very confusing

[abiox]

you're saying that blocking eu ip is insufficient. so you can, at leisure, forcibly subject anyone to attack by gdpr, against their will, by circumventing their access controls.

the only way for all businesses around the world to avoid abuse and subjugation to eu regulators, who they cannot influence, is to not exist at all?

[slackoverflower]

No, the blame would be on you then and you would be held responsible for whatever legal action is necessary, not the company trying to block Europeans users like you. Benefit of the doubt is for the company because of their best effort European citizen blocking.

[stale2002]

You are breqking the computer fraud and abuse act by accessing someone else's computer without their permission,then.

This means that you should be criminally prosecuted by the US. The government sees this the same as hacking.

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