[kmeisthax]

Okay.

Oh look, it turns out[0][1] Europeans generally know about GDPR's effects[2] and care about their privacy online. What a shocker. In fact, I bet if you ran a similar poll of "would Americans want privacy laws equivalent to the EU's", with a simple explanation of what that would entail, you'd probably get a pretty positive response to that, too.

The problem here isn't the EU. It's US Congress, and it's insistence on shitty laws like the CLOUD Act that make it legally impossible to comply with any reasonable foreign privacy law by mandating that tech companies break them in lieu of a proper legal treaty. Bonus points to various UK and Australian[3] laws that collectively ban strong encryption in those territories, though I know of no current GDPR court ruling about that yet.

[0] https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2020/how-concerned-are-europea...

[1] https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/14/gdpr-europeans-awa...

[2] Oddly enough this only extends to knowledge of GDPR's effects. Nobody seems to remember that the law that gave them these new privacy rights is called "GDPR".