> or just leave to a sane country

So first you tell me to blindly trust officals, now i should leave country! Great advice!

> That’s not the GDPR

GDPR is drafted by EU. They went way too far, and made it imcompatible with local laws!

Except in many cases it is your responsibility to ask. If something has indefined legal status, and no documentation, it is a major red flag. Very often corruption, drug or people trafficking or other shady stuff.

If you want gate in middle of the public road, show the paperwork! Or I will call authorities!

You obviously have no idea how business here works! Some gov offical will tell you to delete data for GDPR. Some other gov offical will ask for the same data latter, to prove tax records or people complied with vacine mandates! You get fined from both sides!

Every two years there is a big law reform of some area, while other areas with conflicting laws are still in effects. And small eshops are easy targets for fines. Large corporations are untouchable.

I have my own eshop, i do not use "major player"! Too expensive.

> Or you just ask “what do I need to do?” The official tells you, you do it, they say “thank you.”

And than you get different offical, with different opinion. Their advice have same weight as weather forecast!

> And besides, if you’re unable to accept that you have a social responsibility when you run a business, I don’t know what to tell you?

You were very clear as a business owner i have tons of extra responsibilities. I should go extra mile to "demonstrate". I am single guy, with a few houndred euro a month (lower salary than garbage man), and I have the same obligations as company of 249 people!

> There is no compliance officer required by law

> and be ready to demonstrate that when

> they absolutely value if you’ve tried your best as opposed to not caring at all;

Again, most companies hire an office to "demonstrate best efford" and to offload personal responsibility from company owner. This still applies to one person business!

> The EU is responsible for so many things you just take for granted: A single market larger than the USA with a single currency; hundreds of EU-funded programs for small businesses with grants available easily; common standards across the entire union; protection from foreign traders; cross-border regulation and mobility; even things like funding for public infrastructure, art, and education all around you that you don't know of

Are you even in EU my friend? I was unable to sell into germany becauee of some local BS. Every country has their own taxes, localization and regulations, there is no single market! EU has several currencies! EU does not protect from foreign traders, it pushes contaminated chicken from outside EU that contains salmonela!

Public infrastructure, education and art is responsibility of national goverment, EU sponsors maybe 2% of that!

> just as anything I do in regard to compliance or data protection is of course billed working time

Here is the core problem! You are not eshop owner! You are consultant who directly benefits from more regulations!!!

Of course you will push for more regulations and more "social responsibility"!

Luckily normal people can replace consultants with AI!

I am not major player! I do not have dedicated team of people to keep "compliance up to date".

> if you’re informed they changed

Yet more extra work!

> see you try to be compliant first

Sounds like work for extra GDPR officer! I do not have that kind of money!

But I do need dedicated comliance officer! The lower thresholds applies from 250 employees. I still have the same obligations as larger companies!

And if do notmp comoly goverment will fine me to oblivion!

> So unpaid doesn’t really match the reality here, right?

It absolutely matches the reality. You expect me to do stuff for free. Or can I demand extra money to match minimal salary on my tax return?

Luckily AI can now automate this shit, so now I spend cents instead of dozens hours of labour!

> It doesn’t sound like your business is very worthwhile of keeping up, then? I don’t say this in spite,

Because I have social responsibility to make some rare stuff available, as you would put it! But EU is not making it any easier!

> If you indeed do end up with authorities auditing your business, they absolutely value if you’ve tried your best

So at end I should hope for the best right and relly on merci? My gov just loves to skull fuck "capitalists"!

Exactly! But there is a fixed cost of doing a right think! It is much easier for facebook to do the "right think", than some single guy with no employees!

> just like buying drywall.

I do not have a dry wall. Houses in EU usually do not have a dry wall.

> You also have to keep up with other regulations; that’s the price of doing business

Which one is it then? As small business I am suppose to follow all that ethical regulation bs, the same way as large company, without hiring extra peolle? But I should do it unpaid, in my free time (sleep less, or quit day job)?

Keep on mind I get lower salary than garbage man!

> they absolutely value if you’ve tried your

I do not "store data",. I have a free gmail account, I do not have a "data retention policy". But by GDPR i have to follow the same rules a s facebook!

> they absolutely value if you’ve tried your best....

My absolute best is to check once every a few years. That is not going to fly with goverment!

The only real help I got in past 5 years was AI! It can explain new changes, and audit my workflow, without paying 100x my salary to some consultant!

As for "libertarian talking point", it is survivor bios. There are very little tech compenies left in EU. Heavy regulation burden is one of the reasons.

All EU companies that could hate GSPR are gone, and their would be owners are just random people on internet.

Try to do marketing ad campaign as small eshop owner in EU!