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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 JumpCrisscross on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:47PM (#17168413)
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol

Probably not. It would make sense to roll out services on a country-by-country basis, limiting exposure to those where the national data regulator is known. EU lobbyists and lawyers were just granted a massive break.

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Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by quickben on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:49PM (#17168433)
If anything, this is good for tech jobs overall as we all have a lot more to do now.
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Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:50PM (#17168439)
The vast majority of the work this creates will flow to lawyers and lobbyists.
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