@endoffile@stolas@gdorn Yeah I think the medieval notion of governments having authority over particular land areas starts to break down once you have global trade. Trying to apply an obsolete form of sovereignty to global trade just makes no sense, and to the extent that governments fail to enter into international agreements to regulate, they lose their authority to do so IMO.
So here's the thing that most bugs me about laws that govern international trade: the law can only apply to Europeans. The way they make it apply to people outside of Europe is by restricting who Europeans are allowed to do business with. IMO that is an authority governments (including the US government) simply do not have.
And the fact that Europeans are celebrating being told who they can and can't do business baffles me.
@endoffile@stolas I guess the hope is that foreign businesses will simply comply because of the size of the European market. But large numbers of them are choosing instead to stop doing business with Europeans.
@endoffile@stolas Note that I am extremely pro-privacy and anti-Facebook. I also feel for Europeans who are tired of having Americans' lax attitudes about privacy forced on them. But the solution is to provide viable alternatives to privacy-destroying services, not to pass Internet-destroying laws.