If a company (or its owners if not shielded from liability) has any assets in the EU they can be seized (up to 4% of the company's total value) for violating GDPR. Apparently, Lee Enterprises has assets in Europe, and doesn't want to spend the non-trivial time, effort and expense (or lost revenue) to achieve compliance.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:42 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 02/19/2019 10:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > > So basically, they're blocking EU users from a website due to a law that > > has no effect in the US? Amazing. > > I thought I had heard from a number of people that GDPR could still bite > people in other countries. I don't remember the how, just that it could > be done. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > -- Eric Korpela korp...@ssl.berkeley.edu AST:7731^29u18e3