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Many US news sites have yet to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation after more than two months, leaving European visitors blocked.
Digital outlets run by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media are among the hundreds of US news websites that remain unavailable within the EU, according to NiemanLab.
The General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, is designed to give the EU's 500 million citizens greater control over how their information is used online. Adopted in April 2016, its provisions became directly applicable in EU member states after a two-year transitional period.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by epitaxial on Friday August 10 2018, @07:55PM (3 children)
How does a US based site operate illegally in another country?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday August 10 2018, @09:22PM (2 children)
Some have operations in many countries even if their primary point of presence is in the U.S. Which means transnationals now operate under an increasing disadvantage of having to obey the union set of every insane law in every jurisdiction they have a presence in. Great for giving a boost to smaller companies with presence in only one jurisdiction. For example, Gab.ai is entirely based in the U.S. so they simply announced they would be entirely ignoring the GDPR and the E.U. could pound sand. The E.U. could probably force the banks to reveal their Subjects who do business with Gab and punish them but it would quickly become a PR disaster. They could also implement a Great Firewall and block access, again a PR disaster. If you do not open an office inside the E.U. there really isn't much they can do other than bluster.
But the only way to parse the original poster is to translate it to English as "The U.S. is illegal and illegitimate, so are all other puny countries, even those in Europe. Only (((globalist))) transnational entities like the E.U. and the U.N. have legitimacy. Their superior laws should be enforced worldwide." A U.S. company obeying U.S. laws can't, by definition, be illegal so the only way to parse xir's comment is to presume them/they believes EU law is legitimate and should control worldwide while U.S. law is inferior and illegitimate.
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday August 11 2018, @04:31AM (1 child)
Well, lets look at another example. Aviation laws and regulations down to how an airplane is supposed to be maintained and pilots trained are pretty much the same everywhere. Why? Because FAA does not allow any company to fly to the US if they are not compliant with the US laws even when they fly abroad. The US is a big market, the rules are reasonable, so everybody complies.
Now Europe decided to similarly push Internet laws (perhaps good - does not matter). The US companies current reply - screw you - you are not significant. It would be interesting to see how it all evolves. I am waiting for China to start enforcing certain rules on everybody...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday August 11 2018, @04:51AM
Exactly why ICANN should have never been turned over to the UN. And why the EU should be told to pound sand. When the U.S. regulates something, after some period of being stupid, it usually gets it mostly right, especially technical standards. Everybody figures the FAA's rules might not be 100% what they would have written but everybody can live with it. Nobody builds out a B brand airline that only operates outside the U.S. And when ICANN ran the Internet a few people bitched but everybody was content enough they wanted in on the thing. The Internet is, after all, one of the three Wonder of the 20th Century along with The Bomb and the Moon Landing and it got that way while ICANN was being managed by the USG.
Now every tinpot dictator is angling to impose their vision on the Internet, starting with the ones in Brussels. Just wait until the real shitholes start regulating. Do you wanna live with the regs the Organization of the Islamic Conference push through some UN Committee?