Dozens of American News Sites Blocked in Europe as GDPR Goes Into Effect Today

gizmodo ^ | Matt Novak

[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.

[Verginius Rufus]

GDPR? German Democratic People’s Republic?

[Concentrate]

That’s what I was thinking, LOL!

[Boogieman]

“The Europeans are idiots, but if we let them develop a total Fascist state, it will go badly for us down the road.”

Then if it is our responsibility to stop this, and we are going to have to do it repeatedly, why not just annex them? Why allow them self-determination if we know we will have to keep coming back and cleaning up the consequences of that?

[Kalamata]

>>Unless they want to immediately start paying their agreed upon NATO contributions, I’d be for removing America and our troops from their current “duty” to protect Europe. And the next time the Germans decide to start another world domination gig, we should let Europe take care of it themselves.
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Amen.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Then if it is our responsibility to stop this, and we are going to have to do it repeatedly, why not just annex them?

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We are beswarmed with seditionists from within. We cannot even handle our own problems.

[DiogenesLamp]

Then if it is our responsibility to stop this, and we are going to have to do it repeatedly, why not just annex them? Why allow them self-determination if we know we will have to keep coming back and cleaning up the consequences of that?

You are asking me questions to which I wish I had the answers. What's worse is i'm seeing European style stupidity making heavy growth in this country.

Sometimes you just have to step out of the way and watch the train wreck happen.

[jmacusa]

All liberal media outlets.