Because nuance is valuable? "GDPR is good" doesn't remotely address its strengths and failings, nor the conflicting incentives and motivations that produced it.

I agree that there's no room for home-team mentality here, but we should absolutely assign credit and blame where it's due, especially when those of us who don't live in a jurisdiction with such a law gain some halo-effect benefit.

My comment wasn't meant as a pissing contest. It's not me who has created GDPR, I did not have a choice of getting born in the EU, it just happened :)

But I am pretty impressed that in these days where most regulations for pretty much everything are defined by lobbyists, GDPR actually did happen, ended up to be a very reasonable set of rules, and actually gets enforced. It was written well, and unlike with other regulations it's not full of loop holes.

Laws and regulations created to the sole benefit of your general population is just something you can't take for granted these days anymore. Therefore, for me GDPR is kind of magic.

Sure, but that's the point. It's assigning credit/blame to the legislation in question.

Not some arbitrary lines on the ground that also have terrible anti-legislation.