[deanhills]

I am from Italy, so Europe, and GDPR scares me, how can a 20 year old person that works with Internet knows every ASPECT of that set of rules? I am scared to host my client's data, I am scared to own a VPS outside Europe.

I'm not from Europe, and it scares me too.  As Governments are known for their urge to control everything, and I haven's seen much resistance from anyone to the GDPR.  In fact, WordPress even before GDPR was officially launched, started having special pages in its new WordPress installations.  I was speechless.  Like why bow and curtsy to the EU?  When you're basically from the US?  So the part that scares me are people who are like sheep just accepting these rules, and no doubt with WordPress and many others very soon all of those GDRP laws will get to the rest of the world.  Worse.  The GDRP laws apparently cover more than thousand pages.  So if you get investigated, you'd have to employ an expensive lawyer to try and figure out what the law is.  I'm sure you must have read somewhere where one of our sponsors, Jordy (@Pacific Spirit) tackled those privacy rules with the help of his friend Greg, in the Netherlands.  Now that makes me happy.  I wish there were more people like him like the Davids of the world, prepared to tackle the Goliaths like the EU rules and regulations.

I like to think about these new laws as a way to protect WHO OFFERS A SERVICE AND THE CUSTOMER.

 Now isn't that a very popular promotion tool for Governments to just get more control - all in the name of safety and security of the customer.  Are we more secure?

Like let's take our computers and Websites?  For me it is symbolically the same.  In the beginning we only had one anti-virus software, "TO PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER", now we have Anti-Malware, we have all kinds of scripts and bots for protecting our servers and websites.  It's got so bad that Google and Mozilla Firefox are more or less controlling how I surf the Internet.  Google is worse, as it seems to be breaking all Privacy rules, but of course getting you to tick a box somewhere that you agree to allowing them to have access to your info.  Same with Windows.  I think there is a very VERY thin margin between protection and control by the person who says he is protecting you, right through to getting into your Computer system with your permission, "to protect your computer".  Time and again I've had situations where those protection measures have actually created a problem for my computer.  So I disagree.  I don't feel safer.  The more spam police there are outside in the Internet, that wants to blacklist you IP automatically when a bot sees something and get you registered with all of the spam listers even when it was a false positive.  When this happened to me with Contabo, I felt utterly powerless to defend myself.  And this is against all those guys who are supposed to protect you.  I still maintain that there was nothing on my Website.  That one of those Internet anti-spam organisations picked up on something that could have been there before I took occupation of the VPS.  

And the same for Governments out there.  Let's take Income Tax.  Like that many centuries ago was considered a loan from the people supposed to be short-term.  The people were then in a position to protest - i.e. the Boston Tea Party in the US is a good example.  Now even your people from the street have nightmares about their Income Taxes.  And it's going up every year.  Governments are also fiddling with their currencies, printing more of their currency, to the extent that we're mostly living on debt and Government fun and games with the debt.  

So sorry I'm cynical about "protection", and VERY cynical about the EU.  And I wish that every one will stand up against it and question it when they have a real case to protest.  I then take my hat off for them and salute them.  

My greatest fear are all of these billions of sheep all of the world following this and that rule.  And giving their power away all of the time.  We now have given our power away also to those anti-spam, anti-malware bots who can creep into our computer registries, and all but paralyze our Websites by getting them blacklisted not only with one network, but a whole list of them - like who wants to go through all that trouble to get their Websites delisted from those many many blacklists.  I certainly don't feel protected by those organisations.  I feel threatened by them - and particularly those who give their power to those anti-spam organisations and corporations like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, etc and Governments and allow them to do what they are doing.

P.S I didn't speak about DeepWeb because... well, If you know what it is, you know how it is.

I don't know the DeepWeb.  I wish I knew the part that is the good part of the DeepWeb.  What's happening with the Internet now apart from deep concerns also is very disappointing to me.  Why do people always follow rules slavishly?  Why don't they question them.  Like if a server host was told by all of its customers, we're not doing business with you if you insist on having our personal information, how long will the host stay in business?  Like that's where our power goes.  Tomorrow we wake up and we have no more power.