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by _jn 2952 days ago
I’d be very interested in hearing the counterarguments to this comment instead of just seeing downvotes.
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The uncommented and numerous downvotes (-4 at the moment) in these discussions about GDPR remind me of the great Upton Sinclair quote:

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

It's a lot more than a "small review", even for product focused sites not anywhere near the business of selling or monetizing personal data.
That's fair, but businesses need to do all kinds of things they'd rather not have to do, just to be able to do business. I'm not sure I really believe the sky is falling just because businesses need to take better care of user data.