Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under the GDPR law?

Re:Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under ... by Ninn on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:56AM (#16752334)

Categorily false. GDPR applies based on your users location, not the website/buisness.

Please consider not stating things as facts that you havnt bothered to research.

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Re:Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under ... by mankash666 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:13PM (#16756121)

And you are stating theories as facts. If GDPR holds on American businesses with no legal presence in the EU, then Chinese censorship laws apply to us companies outside China. Or do they?

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Re:Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under ... by ggregoire on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:25PM (#16756262)

Makes no sense at all and the analogy is really bad. GDPR holds on US businesses only for the EU users. If they don't have EU users they don't have to care about the GDPR. US businesses can have different set of rules for the US and EU market (that's what Facebook plans to do about the GDPR). The GDPR doesn't apply for the US market and the US users. Also US companies can limit their service to the US market if they don't agree with the GDPR.

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Re:Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under ... by mnm1 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:52AM (#16752576)

And how do you suppose they would enforce this law on a US only company? An unenforceable law is no law at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under ... by joncampbelldev on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:46AM (#16754608)

Most likely the enforcement would be applied as a restriction on any future business done in the EU assuming the US company refuses to pay the fine.

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