[luibelgo]

To be clear, you are underestimating the population size of European countries, as if would be a drama to lose HN or simply fork it.

I love hackernews, but there’s way more world out there to discover.

This is protecting EU citizens from EEUU companies having a free lunch on their data.

[VikingCoder]

How on Earth did you conclude that I am underestimating the population size of European countries?

I enjoy communicating with all HN users, across the world.

If we each had to use only our own country's fork of HN, we wouldn't communicate with each other, and that would be a bad thing.

[FredPret]

At last someone admits it outright - you want the EU to be an island, walled off from the rest of civilization, and perhaps also reality