Looks like strictly specific to Tronc publishing, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tronc#Newspapers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tronc#Newspapers</a><p>Anyone else blocking?<p>Additionally, blocking access to the site that already has the data from the people of EU is violating GDPR more than simply keeping the site alive. GDPR is not about the data that is collected only after the May 25th.
> Aggressive potential penalties are likely to affect some business decisions.<p>Aggressive user tracking and nonchalant attitude to users' personal data seems to be less problematic to them.
Pretty sure WSJ is non-compliant to GDPR by not providing the option for EU readers to opt out of their cookie policy, ironic that that will be a reason for Tronc blocking EU readers altogether.
Just in case you're not a WSJ subscriber, use this to bypass the pay wall: <a href="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fu-s-websites-go-dark-in-europe-as-gdpr-data-rules-kick-in-1527242038" rel="nofollow">https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...</a>
This regulation has been on its way for 2 years, and before that it was discussed extensively. Any big corporation not complying or making such a move as simply blocking EU users is ridiculous. Lobbying obviously didn't work so now they want users to revolt against EU lawmakers, or what is the endgoal here? There was enough time to comply, I find this behaviour unfair and short-sighted on the mid to long run.
As a non-European who has no problems complying with the GDPR and has resources at his disposal: Please, If someone knows of a list of all companies and services that refuse to comply with the GDPR, please point me to it.<p>To me, this seems like an incredible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get into previously captured markets.
To add some flavor to this, there are only a handful of vendors that sell cookie opt-in software in the US, and implementing one on our own tiny site was a nightmare. If the business model revolves around ads or third party services, I can't imagine how much worse it would be to get running.
Japanese forum giant 5ch (formerly 2ch) has also decided to IP block all of EU in order to "comply" with GDPR, as of a few days ago.<p>I've been hoping it wouldn't spread, since it's depressing to be confined to a little internet bubble in this day and age. Guess I'll be needing a VPN.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing less US news. One of the downsides of being on the global English-speaking internet of social link propagation-discussion sites is that it's incredibly US centric. We need to pay more attention to our own countries and localities.
So what happens with all the open-source projects that EU citizens are involved in? Some of those are (more or less) based in the US. Are they also covered by the GDPR or is it just businesses?
Well, good riddance to all of those companies which do not want to comply with a law made to protect citizen’s privacy. Europeans now have an antispam, anticrooks filter for free.