Bear in mind GDPR seems to have become some sort of totemic issue for the small minority of people in Europe who are true-blue died in the wool ideological supporters of the EU project. They are flooding GDPR discussions with these sorts of views. A good give away is they say "speaking as a European" or use the term "EU citizen" (there is no such thing, the EU as an institution does not have citizens or issue passports, it's only member states that do that).

But Europe is full of people who aren't so in thrall to the EU as an idea, as evidenced by one of its most important countries voting to leave despite the population being threatened with massive chaos and severing of all cooperation and trade relationships with their neighbours should they choose to do so. Bad regulation was one of the most common talking points during the Brexit campaigns and GDPR is a good example of why.

These sort of people aren't posting so much on HN but they are quite common.