frankly you are treating Facebook and your phone as if they were addictive drugs instead of a way to communicate
the government should take those away if people can't use them without hurting themselves
taking some person heroin or cocaine away is a form of torture or human right violation too, but we let governments do it because we think those chemicals corrupt the individual who uses them
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA
that's ridiculous, small companies grow by targeting audiences and computing expected future cash flow
the cost of legal action is a risk that affects the bottom line (it also affects reputation, but for new laws, the issue of reputation isn't as relevant because the laws haven't been tested by the society yet, they are fresh laws)
the idea that a corporation is "insane" for estimating the future cash flows and legal expenses for providing services to an audience is comedy
no, that's how a good, well-run, intelligent organization grows
the GDPR represents a risk to the bottom line when services are provided to European customers, and that risk must be factored in; this risk directly affects the corporate financial structure, and investors may have some input in terms of when and how to extend service to the EU
pretending that spite or some petty or small emotional frame of mind is required to apply basic sound financial principles of running a business is bizarre
when running a business, you are expected to win, and winning means not going bankrupt because some psycho lawyer in the EU wants to make money by destroying your reputation, destroying your life, and destroying your business
GDPR gives fuel to psycho lawyers. If you don't want to get sued by psycho lawyers, don't provide services to people who hire psycho lawyers, don't provide service to the EU.
If you have deep pockets and you know the expected cost of fighting off psycho lawyers is less than the expected revenue of providing service to the EU, then it may be time to expand to the EU; you and your investors should both have an understanding of the risks and rewards of expanding service.
Let me repeat: this is not an emotional matter, it is a matter of doing business.
I don't see how this improves upon the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, aside from expanding the range of functions that can uniformly approximate a continuous function or scatter plot. A scatter plot can be turned into a continuous function by setting the value to be the linear function that connects the two nearest data points, a piecewise linear function.
The idea that tool manufacturers are not responsible for misuse or hacking is quite ridiculous.
We have a legal system in the USA to hold manufacturers, both for both industrial and consumer applications, responsible when a design flaw causes harm.
Vulnerabilities are design flaws. They make a product unsafe to use. The idea that routers are still safe when Russian hackers abuse them is not reality. They become dangerous vectors for viruses and harassment. The cost to the USA economy could be enormous in the case of a mass attack on routers.
A router is military hardware. It can be used to militate. When routers are sold to consumers, this is done with the knowledge that a router can be exploited for military applications. A router is potentially an exploit that an adversary can use for reconnaissance or subversion.
If a manufacturer is selling faulty military hardware as a consumer good and making sure exploits that hackers use are not fixed, that manufacturer is a traitor. The punishment for being a traitor is summary execution.
This is a good reason to demand the American government repeal civil rights laws and anti-racism laws.
The American people have every right to deny Chinese people access to American services, American businesses, American networks, American contacts, American financial services, and so on.
The Chinese are children who cannot be counted upon to operate a society, they are stupid idiots whose arrogance should not be tolerated.
This will bring China and the USA closer to war over ideology, values, freedom, sex.
The Chinese government should be punished for this arrogance.
The Chinese government should not be allowed to conduct scientific experiments while it engages in this mass dehumanization experiment.
The Chinese must choose between dignity and science on the one hand and communism and dehumanization on the other.
The Americans should not tolerate such stupid fools.
As an American, I have the right to spit on and yell at chinese.
I can exercise that right to demoralize and dehumanize pests.
I can push chinese into the street where cars will run them over.