[blocked_again]

You do know that nobody in US is forcing you to use this site or any other US companies for that matter. You are doing it with your own free fill.

Also, remember the time when Germany decided to go after their own people? How does laws like this help when it comes to situations like that?

[xdennis]

I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you mean that each individual is supposed to know where every site is based instead of having country-wide/EU-wide protections in place?

[blocked_again]

Yeah. Individuals are perfectly capable of making that decision. I don't want my government telling me where I should keep my data.

[simion314]

So you say nobody should say visit US because human rights apply only for citizens? Do I also don't have the right to point that this is bad? When did non US people lost this right to complain?

Is there a reason why making it illegal for NSA and CIA to spy on EU citizens with warrants is affecting you personally? Do you work for CIA and you don't want to fill paperwork?

This is such an obvious solution, remove the stupid law and partner with EU in protecting privacy, then you can work together against China.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, let alone nationalistic flamewar. It's exactly what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually, given the pattern of this account not just in this thread but in other threads as well, we've banned it. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32393807.

[blocked_again]

All I am saying is Individuals are perfectly capable of making that decision. Whether they should store their data in Germany, California or some random Caribbean island.