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So I should be afraid of litigation?

Then wtf is the point of GDPR if nobody will be sued for violating it?

Discourse, disqus good job nit picking.

How about you try answering this question I posed to you

What is your point here? What is your point when you say that the EU is not litigious? Are you saying that I shouldn't expect to receive a fine for violating GDPR? Are you saying that I should just ignore GDPR data access requests if I am operating in a supposedly ethical manner and I am not selling user information?

>Except this forum software does provide a tool that lets the user export their own data, as well as a tool that lets an admin strip all identifying data.

Completely besides the point, there are hundreds of different pieces of forum software that may not have that feature implemented.

>The only way this targets non-European businesses is because the litigious nature of US culture seems to lead to this sort of overreaction.

Did I ever bring up litigation? What is your point here?

> Yes, this is really little different from shutting down a whole forum because you received a single DMCA request.

Completely unrelated. Not only are DMCA requests easier to handle than data access requests, the fines for not complying with GDPR are disproportionately larger for violating DMCA.

Work required for complying with a DMCA request: delete the offending material, a basic feature implemented on every single piece of forum software

Work required for complying with a data access request: Search every single service you potentially could have stored user data in and provide it to the user. A non basic feature that requires custom development.

Additionally any malevolent user (as is shown in this case) is incentivized to send a GDPR data access request while this is not true for DMCA.

I agree however that they are both horrible laws. So if your argument was to show that GDPR is just as bad as the DMCA I agree. GDPR is a horrible law and it is not obvious to me that the law wasn't created specifically to target non European business.

> If those equivalent resources are thousands (or millions) of government panels then we should be able to mathematically prove equivalency.

There is a method of solving an NP complete problem with thousands (or millions) of government panels?

> if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military?

Them working closely with the military would not be the reason I would choose not to use their service considering that almost all emails already go through NSA servers.

>We put our faith into them, in the hopes that they would honor their creed, that they would do no evil.

Working for the US military is not doing evil.