Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by freedomben on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:07PM
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I think you have a decent point there, but the comment I replied to literally said:
> Hoping you've blocked access to the EU so I don't happen across it :)
Being glad that he doesn't have the freedom to use the site, thanks to a government law (whether a side-effect of the law or a direct effect is irrelevant, because the law brought it out just the same).
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by shabble on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:11PM
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I suspect it's more in teh sense of a "Don't let the door hit you on the way out..." retort.
That is, if you're offering such a service that exploits users for their data, then I would never want to use it, so it might as well be blocked, for all I care.
Maybe even desirable if it was, so you don't come across it by mistake and sign up without doing proper diligence.
Freedom of choice is nice, but there's an argument that putting rat-poison in food products isn't ok, even if you label it on the package.
Your example where you "want to give your data away to a sketchy website" is not in any way representative of reality when a) the website is as ubiquitous as for instance FB, and thus in no way perceived as sketchy, and b) the user makes no conscious decision to consent (let alone "wants it").