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Comment by al_ramich | Hacker News Reader

First time seeing the 'inaccessible if coming from the EU' message. Wonder if there are any stats out there to break down how many non-EU websites are opting to stop the traffic vs complying with the GDPR.

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And, worst, they use the 451 status when it's them who don't want to comply with a privacy protection law.

Do they think anyone will believe the EU is censoring US websites?

interesting that if you believe "David" giving an interview to the Sun, there could be fines even if websites prevent access to the EU citizens

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6375884/gdpr-fines-websites-bl...

I think that, if real, which I doubt, is a hard to enforce rule and an unfair one. If you are unwilling to protect the privacy of your users, you can still serve your website to people who live in countries that don't mandate such protections.

My problem is with the misuse of a political statement. The EU is not censoring anyone. It's protecting its residents. Shame on governments that don't do the same.

Did a bit more looking into this and it seems to be the case. The issue is with organisations that have historically captured info about EU citizens which even if they stopped access to new EU users, still makes them need to comply with GDPR. So preventing access might also need to be supported by removing any EU user data from your system. Discussed in detail below.

https://www.econsultancy.com/blog/70065-gdpr-which-websites-...

latimes.com does a similar thing; bounced off it a couple times in the past few weeks.

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