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A comment on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU. Parent comment

Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by tathougies on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:58PM (#17097739)
Right... which is why this guy has decided this is no longer going to be his hobby in the EU. While the EU has every right to say 'those who do X for a hobby must do Y to comply' they cannot say 'everybody must have X for a hobby' or 'Bob must continue doing X for a hobby' .
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Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by optimalKEK on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:31PM (#17097945)
The high-tech laws and regulations of the EU are a bit more sophisticated than in the US so it may take some time for the rest of the world to catch on.
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Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by tathougies on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:39AM (#17098738)
Well, if anything, Europe has a history of labeling authoritarians as progressives. Whether that's something to be proud of is something history will decide.
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Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by optimalKEK on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:29AM (#17099952)
Authoritarianism is the only way to protect the people from runaway capitalism. Juncker is a good leader - I never understood why Americans/Anglos think that "Authoritarianism = BAD".
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Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by tathougies on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:52AM (#17101926)
Probably because we’ve internalized the lessons of the aftermath of the British empire
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