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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by civilitty on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:29AM (#16956013)
> You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.

Is that a bad thing? The vast majority of regulations exist because someone's "critical thinking" went too far in the name of profit.

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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations by closeparen on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:37AM (#16956818)
>The vast majority of regulations

Your mistake is assuming that the idea being sold internally under the heading "compliance" is required by, or even tangentially related to, an actual regulation.

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