How about you try answering this question I posed to you
What is your point here? What is your point when you say that the EU is not litigious? Are you saying that I shouldn't expect to receive a fine for violating GDPR? Are you saying that I should just ignore GDPR data access requests if I am operating in a supposedly ethical manner and I am not selling user information?
>Except this forum software does provide a tool that lets the user export their own data, as well as a tool that lets an admin strip all identifying data.
Completely besides the point, there are hundreds of different pieces of forum software that may not have that feature implemented.
>The only way this targets non-European businesses is because the litigious nature of US culture seems to lead to this sort of overreaction.
Did I ever bring up litigation? What is your point here?
> nobody will put you into jail for non-compliance
ha
> kidnap you or send a drone to you
thank you for making it obvious you are arguing in bad faith. Hint: you are more likely to be fined 20 million Euros for violating GDPR than having a drone sent after you for ignoring a DMCA request.
If you actually believe you will have a drone sent after you for violating DMCA or ignoring a letter from the NSA go see a psychiatrist.
This is at least the 5th instance I've seen of a website announcing their closure due to GDPR on Hacker News. Most websites probably wouldn't announce it and given that a post about simply blocking all EU users got upvoted to the front page less than a week ago I doubt the idea of blocking all EU users isn't more prevalent.
> Yes, this is really little different from shutting down a whole forum because you received a single DMCA request.
Completely unrelated. Not only are DMCA requests easier to handle than data access requests, the fines for not complying with GDPR are disproportionately larger for violating DMCA.
Work required for complying with a DMCA request: delete the offending material, a basic feature implemented on every single piece of forum software
Work required for complying with a data access request: Search every single service you potentially could have stored user data in and provide it to the user. A non basic feature that requires custom development.
Additionally any malevolent user (as is shown in this case) is incentivized to send a GDPR data access request while this is not true for DMCA.
I agree however that they are both horrible laws. So if your argument was to show that GDPR is just as bad as the DMCA I agree. GDPR is a horrible law and it is not obvious to me that the law wasn't created specifically to target non European business.
If he doesn't want to waste his time because of EU snowflakes it is his prerogative to shut down his forum. Why do you believe you have a right to his service?
Are you talking about Disqus specific features? Because that is really beside the point and the fact that you are bringing it up shows how clueless you GDPR zealots actually are.
> if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military?
Them working closely with the military would not be the reason I would choose not to use their service considering that almost all emails already go through NSA servers.
> then it implies that there is nothing special about markets
How so? It implies simply that markets are not efficient. It does not imply that state control would be more efficient and it does not imply that markets are not the most efficient way of determining the value of a resource.
What it definitely says however, is that a government committee could not, in any way, successfully determine the value of all goods and fix prices based on that determination.
Thank you for giving my comment the least charitable reading possible. If that were the case why would I even bother leading with
"you will either lead the way" If a better monetization scheme that ads arises from the ashes of GDPR then I really will have no reason to be frustrated.