psivchaz

As an American, GDPR has affected me. Many sites have chosen, rather than deal with Europe and the rest of the world separately, to just make a version of their site that is GDPR-compliant. I've sent GDPR erasure requests to services and they don't bother checking if I'm actually a European citizen, they just remove my data because it's easier. I'd argue that GDPR was a net good even for America and other countries.

This is the same thing but in reverse. If KOSA makes Pornhub unable to operate in America, they may very well shut down due to the loss of revenue. If KOSA makes companies paranoid about allowing, for example, NSFW pictures, or LGTBQ or abortion information, or similar, then those companies may disallow it on their services altogether even if they have servers in Europe because setting up the infrastructure for, for example DailyMotion, to have totally separate databases of content in different regions is just too much.

This can affect you. Not as much as people in the US, sure. But unless you use sites and applications made only by European companies, it can absolutely affect you.

I'm frustrated. I had curated reddit so that mostly I just saw stuff I found interesting, with very little doom and gloom and ragebait. Now I've switched to Lemmy and the communities I've subscribed to so far aren't very active so I end up scrolling All to find more things but it's mostly doom and ragebait with only the occasional porn as a break from it.

Or at least stop subsidizing the fossil fuels.