RE: Why Are Major American News Websites Now Blocked In Europe In Response To the New Privacy Legislation (GDPR)?
The new legislation is anything but noble. Seriously, did anyone expect that? In fact this legislation is a huge assault on many levels.
Firstly, this new law will kill independent journalism because of the huge fines for publishing pictures without written consent of ALL persons in the photos. Only main stream journalist are exempt. Pictures which revealed hoaxes and false flag will now be impossible to post.
Secondly it will kill small business because only large corporations will be able to comply with the ridiculous restrictions, they will simply not be able to afford the "security measures".
And even more insidious, thirdly, since all data are private, you will have to give them up VOLUNTARILY if you want the benefit of certain services, i.e crossing a border. You will have the "choice" to give voluntary access to your data or you are locked out from certain services or "privileges". This is a HUGE MINDFUCK, that's all.
The fact that they now block internet access appears to be a step towards stifling the flow of information and probably the beginning of a planned isolation of the United States.
Please don't forget that lawmakers and corporations are servants and tools to the same cabal. They work together. No one is rebellious. We are getting f@cked, by all of them...
Thanks for your comment. I haven't read through all of the terms of the legislation so far - I have only been looking at what directly applies to me when running my sites. Can you point me to a link that highlights the relevant clauses which prohibit publishing photos without total written consent of all involved?
I can certainly see how small businesses could be disrupted by having tons of spurious claims for data access made. In theory, if a business serves large numbers of people but makes little money from them on average, then the claims logged by them could possibly cause the business to collapse. That said though, I am not sure that such a high number of people would be wanting to make such claims through their own intentions, so it might mostly only cause a problem when used as a weapon to deliberately cause small businesses problems.
crossing a border is not a 'service' as such - i have not heard any commentary on how the GDPR could be said to apply in such a case - can you point me to any?
As far as I know, the US is fully intending to change it's legislation to match the GDPR at some point anyway.
Unfortunately all my sources are in GERMAN. I am a German native speaker and observe the developments in Europe via youtube. I have formed my opinion through watching quite a few (German) videos on this subject.
I am pretty sure that my statements are essentially correct and the implications are factual, not exaggerated.
What I heard is that one will have to have WRITTEN permission of EVERY person in a photo. The fines are huge. This means a freelance journalist will not be able to post an incriminating picture. You will not be able to back up an alternative narrative with photos, reveal false flags, etc.
The burden of "security" measures for keeping data private will be so massive, that small businesses will not be able to do online marketing. Only large corporations will be able to do that, which is the goal.
And again the insidious part will be that you will have to give up your data voluntarily in order to get access to certain "privileges". The government is not spying on you anymore, you GIVE them permission.
A border guard might ask you for your data, to make sure you are not a "threat". If you comply, you might pass. If you don't...well...there might be a problem...
EDIT: Just think about it. When was the last legislation passed which was BENEFICIAL for us? It ALWAYS is to our disadvantage. It's all an illusion...
I see, ok - I will have a look around and see what I can find in English.
As far as the issue of being forced to do anything to access services goes - that is an issue that was addressed by an Austrian lawyer already with the big social networks.. I haven't had time to fully understand it yet.
I would be very surprised if your take on things were accurate, given the amount of research I have done on this already and the amount of people I have listened to and the fact that none of them have mentioned any of these issues at all.. But on the other hand, I wouldn't be 'THAT' surprised, since we are talking about the EU afterall!
Trust me, with all this $hit going on, I'd be more than happy to be wrong about EVERYTHING I think I know.
I'll let you know if I find anything useful!