Absolutely not. GDPR is the kind of thing that should have been passed worldwide 20 years ago. If companies will not respect your data and your privacy, they deserve to be punished severely.
GDPR isn't a well thought out regulation because the regulators couldn't even take the time to give examples of how to to migrate common internet infrastructure in order to be compliant. Instead they just threw out their shitty law and told the world to figure it out.
This new link tax further proves to me that the bureaucrats in the EU have no idea what they are doing and have no technical knowledge.
And that is the goal, isn't it?
To drive out smaller competitors from online spaces so that only the big boys can play.
${SOCIAL_NETWORK} isn't a well thought out business because the owners couldn't even take the time to consider common privacy expectations in order to respect their customers. Instead they just threw out their shitty service and told the world to figure it out.
This new practice of blocking EU users further proves to me that the execs in ${SOCIAL_NETWORK} have no idea what they're doing and have no good intentions.