Posted on 05/25/2018 6:44:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
First reported by the BBC, news sites owned by media companies like Tronc and Lee Enterprises are now totally dark in European Union countries. Some of those sites include the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, the St. Louis Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel. Gizmodo was able to confirm that the websites were being blocked in Europe by using a VPN service that routed internet traffic through various European countries.
Internet users who visit sites like the L.A. Times receive a notification like the one below, explaining:
Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
NPR appears to be giving Europeans a choice of either still being tracked with cookies and other tracking technologies, or just viewing NPR online in plain text.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
The fines that will be levied against companies who do not comply will reach into the hundreds of billions.
If it were a well written piece we would know what GDPR means/is in the first paragraph.
The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today.
Blame me. There was an explanatory paragraph in the article that I dropped from the excerpt.
The story’s first sentence:
“The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today.”
The GDPR was legislation passed in April of 2016 to ensure that internet users had more control over how their information was being used. Companies face enormous fines if they’re not in compliance with the data protection rules that have been laid out, which include providing more information to consumers on how data is being collected on them, and forcing companies to delete old data that’s no longer being used. At its most drastic, the EU’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has the power to fine large companies up to 4 percent of the company’s global annual turnover after the second offense. For large companies like Google and Amazon that’s in the billions of dollars. Under the new rules, lengthy user license agreements also must be in plain language and easy to understand.
Europe not getting their fake news. Hehe...
nEU iron curtain?
The EU is such a complete and total cluster-bleep. Good luck collecting those fines from Russia and China, idiots.
I do find the sites I will stay at or visit are getting more limited every day. Global data mining is seriously compromising our internet.
None of these free email sites can be trusted as they are mechanically reading everybody’s email content and compiling all sorts of private info left and right.
Back in the olden days, there used to be a broadcast called RADIO FREE EUROPE. These poor Europeans have built and live in their own prison.
This is nothing but the EU taking control of the Internet.
I believe it will be an economic disaster for the EU and its companies as people simply block them.
So, how many miltary divisions does this EU Information Commissar have exactly?
What do they need divisions for? The socialists already won Europe.
Radio Free Europe still exists. But today it mainly broadcasts to only the Middle East and Central Asia. Perhaps they should consider broadcasting to all of Europe as well.
“nEU iron curtain?”
Good one.
This is big brother stuff.
It is. "The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."
I believe it will be a much bigger disaster than that. Suppressing dissident speech enables fascism.
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