DirtyPolecat

DirtyPolecat t1_iyb0805 wrote

Because the EU is a 700 million person market, and no big company wants to forever sully their potential profit on those people by getting on the EU's bad side. JimbobJamesNews.com however, isn't going to give a shit, and nobody in the US is going after them. The big ones aren't doing it because they're forced to. They're doing it because money.

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DirtyPolecat t1_iyaza6t wrote

If I had the time, I can log onto a European VPN right now and probably find you hundreds of websites hosted inside the US not complying with GDPR but yet are still accessible from inside the EU and give you log files and screenshots and everything. There's way more out there than the big corporate sites that will bend over backwards for any country's laws.

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DirtyPolecat t1_iyawelj wrote

Because CNN also operates in the EU. They have offices all over the world. That person's point remains. If I create a website in the US, and keep all my servers in the US, but don't block Europe and its users from accessing it, I am NOT subject to EU law. I am subject to US law, where my actual infrastructure is. There's millions of websites I can access from here that weren't intended to be viewed by my region but because of the open nature of the Internet, I can still see them.

Edit: Not sure how old you are but in the early 2000s this is how the famous filesharing website Pirate Bay was able to keep evading being taken down by moving their servers from country to country every time they encountered trouble with the local authorities. Foreign countries weren't able to do shit about it, but their users were still able to access it. That's how the Internet has always worked since its inception. The region blocking thing and serving different data to users of different countries is a relatively new thing. It's carving up the Internet into little bubbles and enclaves and defeating the whole purpose of it.

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DirtyPolecat t1_ixrgy63 wrote

Reply to comment by C0SMIC_WARRIOR in Murdered by Laser-Brain-Delusion

> why the fxxx do people glorify harming people just for clout

To even begin to understand what circumstances in someone's life would drive someone to eventually do that is not something our society is ready to confront and proactively do something about. We punish after the fact. We aren't set up to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Someone who is secure, fed, medically cared for, and housed adequately has no reason to join a gang or murder anybody.

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DirtyPolecat t1_iwc40bd wrote

Within the first year of moving here I had tools stolen out of my truck, my car's hood stomped flat, and someone murdered in the back alley behind my house.

Reeeeally depends on where in the city you live. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing this "awesome" Baltimore from where I'm at.

I'm only here because I'm also a poor man, and housing is cheap.

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DirtyPolecat t1_isvots8 wrote

Knock down the trash incinerator giving me and my family cancer. The fumes are always wafting over Cherry Hill/Brooklyn.

Edit: seriously, who's idea was it to put that motherfucker smack dab in the middle of the city? When I used to play Simcity I put that shit faaaarrr away from anybody if I had to use one.

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