As somebody who values privacy greatly something about the GDPR just doesn't sit right with me, which is confusing and conflicting because somebody who values privacy should be naturally aligned with it. After thinking long and hard about the GDPR the part that bothers me the most is the expectation from the EU that foreign entities enforce their regulations because the EU cannot bare the political consequences of do…
That sort of thing happens all the time - except the US is usually the one coercing foreign entities. Remember the DMCA? ThePirateBay's raid in 2006? Or the Megaupload debacle? Or how Japan was pressured by the US to adopt stricter child pornography laws?
Note, I'm not saying the people behind these were supporting moral and noble causes that the US was wrong to clamp down on. I'm certainly not saying people should comply to China's expectations on free speech and flow of information. Simply, if you feel infuriated that a foreign power is enforcing its worldview and related regulations onto you, an American citizen, know that that's what literally everyone else has been experiencing for the last decades from the people you've put in power.
But then, what the EU is trying to enforce here - more power to Internet users, essentially - is fairly benign when compared to what other foreign powers would like to enforce. If there were matters of infuriation to be had on that account, I'd start with the Mariott debacle [1].