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A comment on Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR. Parent comment

Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by ceejayoz on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:43PM (#17168393)
> Just look at FB, Google and the rest of the advertising companies. They bent over backwards trying to accodomate the law.

Did they? Isn't Facebook's GDPR flow "agree or fuck off forever"? https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/25/facebook-google-face-first...

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Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by quickben on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:48PM (#17168418)
It will take some time to play out. People will sue, costs of lawsuits payout will be weighed against continuing the existing practices (IBM vs Xerox style) etc.

Two things: they are still operating in EU, and it didn't go well for Microsoft itself when they tried to disobey EU.

So, we'll see how it ends.

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