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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by DeathArrow on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:51AM (#31311629)
>Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

I can't read the site from Europe. How are their European visitors important if they can't access the site?

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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by pantulis on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:52AM (#31311638)
While I understand refusing to serve 3rd party cookies to European visitors, the message copy seems totally out of tune.
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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by mbaytas on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:55AM (#31311657)
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsnationnow.com%...
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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by tokai on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:16AM (#31313166)
I guess they are admitting that they don't care about their non-eu visitors, and will not protect any user data unless forced to under the threat of legal trouble.
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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by penguin_booze on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:38PM (#31316354)
By the same rules of logic that makes 'your privacy is important to us' superficially true.
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