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by yeldarb 2458 days ago
Curious how you feel about GDPR (the EU asserts its authority to bind an American entity with servers in America running a service targeted at American consumers so long as a single EU citizen chooses to visit the site).
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Only inasmuch as it pertains to the data of the single EU citizen. The American entity can do whatever they want with their American consumer data.
You could have one GDPR compliant site in the EU and a different international one.. or just block EU. Nobody is infringing on someone else's sovereignty in that case.
Some sites actually do block visitors from the EU. E.g. the Chicago Tribune.
In theory*

In practice if you've got no presence in the EU, what can they realistically do? Extradite over GDPR?