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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by paulmd on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:28PM (#21020397)
"Someone passed a bad law once, therefore all laws are bad."

Guess we don't need food safety laws anymore, prohibition was bad!

Surely you can understand the difference between prohibition and consumer-protection laws? They aren't even like, the same field of laws.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pitaj on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:44PM (#21020558)
No, the point is that it's important to address and control for all of the consequences of policy - including the unintended ones.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by paulmd on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:47PM (#21020586)
Sure, but then you need to demonstrate real (not just imagined) harm. GDPR doesn't seem to have caused the world to end. Vanishingly few people actually followed through on the whining and quit serving the EU.

From the perspective of ordinary users, GDPR was a pretty successful law with no real downsides. Businesses have to be more careful with data, that's about it.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by lacampbell on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:02PM (#21021160)
In regards to the GDPR, I imagine most people continue to ignore the laws of jurisdictions they have no presence in. If they have an EU presence they will follow EU laws, same as if they had a presence in China or North Korea.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by lacampbell on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:53PM (#21021097)
Odd way to paraphrase my argument.
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