Also tired of people thinking that a company not wanting a rule means they were intending to do the exact the opposite of that rule, especially given said rule is incredibly vague and designed to be applied "on principle".

Fortunately for all of us, safety regulation is actually very specific in requirements.

Here's a thought: regulation like this is, along with the heavy-handed ideology that lead to it, is the reason why the EU is still lagging regarding technical innovation. I think this attitude is the primary reason Silicon Valley took hold in the USA and that the EU has nothing comparable. If the EU wants to legislate itself out of the future they're more than welcome to do so -- and I applaud every site who makes the tough decision to stonewall EU users.

Hey, man, that's totally fine that you don't want those services.

Which is why those services are responding by blocking all EU customers.

Seems like a win win for everyone. Businesses don't have to deal with ounerous laws, and EU citizens don't get to use those services.

>No mechanical engineer would complain about safety regulation

Mechanical engineering projects are too costly to be undertaken casually in the first place. Regulation is unlikely to be the long pole, so do you don't hear them complain about it. It only takes a few minutes and some easily self-teachable skills to start serving HTTP traffic; now it's going to take a few months and some lawyer hours to create the bureaucratic cover for doing so.