User blog comment:TOR/Join us in protecting the freedom of user-generated content/@comment-26239285-20180924095926/@comment-25646820-20180924142532

EU controls affect companies located outside the EU if they have any customers or users in the EU. Using the GDPR example, any software service with clients in the EU (such as where I work) has had to comply. Theoretically, one could implement different services for EU and non-EU customers but in most cases it would be wildly impractical for two reasons. Firstly, it would amount to siloing wikis off from each other: the EU set and the non-EU set where unmoderated change happens. The other reason it won't work is that while one can make pretty good guesses based on IP address as to where someone lives, it is by no means foolproof. So, in order to enforce the siloing, they'd have to have a wholly separate authentication system, where one proves where one lives and so on. Much easier to just have the EU rules apply to everyone.