Jurisdiction is sometimes complex, but you don't have to be an attorney to see the disconnect in a court in say, Germany, claiming it has jurisdiction over the practices of a food blog run by someone in Kansas because someone in Berlin decided to sign up for their newsletter.

I want to be clear I think they have a moral and ethical obligation to delete that person's information if so requested. There's just no (legitimate) legal requirement. The huge jurisdictional overreach by GDPR is part of why you're seeing companies just outright ignore parts of it.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not GDPR actually covers anything in the spectrum of "human rights" but for the love of god slavery has nothing to do with anything about it.