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Respectfully, this is utter nonsense.

The EU has full jurisdiction within the EU, and zero without. The EU has no ability to demand action or inaction from an entity in the United States. They can ask all they want but it's just that - a request.

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Respectfully, this is also not correct. "The EU has full jurisdiction within the EU, and zero without" like in software there are always corner cases, as with e.g. Norway or Liechtenstein. Also on some more specific stuff via bilateral agreements. Has nothing to do with this case, but still your statement is false

Is it though? Isn't the enforcement authority in Norway still the Norwegian government and not the EU? Can't Norway vote to rescind that bilateral agreement?

EU/US laws aside, do you think, from a human perspective, to be unreasonable for me, as a human beign, to have the power to ask for my data to be deleted?

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