[allemagne]

Obviously, the number of people who think that GDPR and its rollout has gone perfectly is probably zero.

I think the reason there's so much defensiveness about GDPR is because it is legitimately a rare and valuable victory of data privacy advocates. From that perspective, the smug "just don't do business in the EU" meme might seems like a sentiment that ignores that victory so much that many probably assume it was born out of hostility to data privacy advocacy.

[watwut]

Frankly, I think that GDPR was rolled out quite well. And I think there was way more fear mongering and intentional confusion by the "no regulations should exist ever and all are badly horrible" then actual problems with legislations or its rollout.

I did seen institutions doing unnecessary crazy things or waking up a day before it went valid etc. There is no way this was avoidable entirely and given people trying to lobby against it by essentially lying, all in all it went quite well.