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Re:GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data pro... by danieldk on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:35PM (#17156069)
I'm sure you considered all the poor people across the world that are subsidized by the ad driven model we use today.

A lot of them are poor, because we don't want to pay a decent amount for the products that we consume and instead rely on people working in sweatshops in third-world countries.

You don't solve poverty by giving them 'free' products that require them to give you all their private data. You solve poverty by giving people a decent wage, so that they make these decisions themselves.

Re:GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data pro... by jimmaswell on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:27PM (#17156562)
This is a false dilemma. There's no reason we can't both work towards better wages for everybody and support cheaper services for poor people in the meantime.