[buboard]

facebook is probably laughing harder at this. A few billion in fines, combined with low irish taxation is still not big enough to justify pulling out of the EU market. The EU decided a bit too late to build a chinese-style 'firewall' around european tech and it's not really working. Instead they are playing cat and mouse with big corp, which really shows that these laws were mainly meant to have an apotropaeic effect

[Havoc]

>The EU decided a bit too late to

Probably. They're the only big guys making a credible effort though. Russia/China won't be doing anything. US & associated lobbying basically IS big tech now.

...leaving just the EU.

[buboard]

china already has her own internet ecosystem. Russia has VK,yandex,mail.ru etc. EU has nothing

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CN

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/RU

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DE

[Hamuko]

Ah yes, requiring user consent is exactly the same thing as censoring information not beneficial to the government.

[buboard]

i don't really mean a censorship firewall, rather an attempt to shoo US companies from the EU market the same way that China is protecting its own companies.

[Hamuko]

So EU companies are allowed to ignore GDPR, as it's just used to shoo away US companies?

[buboard]

no they re not, which is why this kind of "firewalling" is stupid

[Hamuko]

What kind of a fucking firewall is it now? It's not for censorship, it's not for preferential treatment. You keep calling a firewall but can't say what it actually does.