There is absolutely zero risk as long as you stay out of the UK. Even if you do travel to the UK, there is no practical risk for the foreseeable future.

And yet we're seeing websites panicking and blocking all UK visitors... which is my point.

Also, thinking that there might be a risk if you travel to the UK because your random website on the other side of the world does not comply with a specific UK law is rather overestimating your importance and the British authorities.

Actually some idiot politician tried to blame Amazon for knife crime in the UK. Never mind that most kids can find kitchen knives (the type used in a recent crime when the politician made the statement) in the kitchen where they live.

US politician?

I decided to do some legwork here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9q7r4wpep0t

TL;DR: UK politician

From what I read this politician didn't blame Amazon, she criticised the government's failure to monitor the attacker:

> She says he was referred to counter-terrorism scheme Prevent three times, but his case was not referred onwards

She also said that regulating the sale of large knives could help reduce stabbings, in the same way strict gun laws helped stop school shootings.

Honestly, in South (and North) America, everyone's carrying a gun. I wish we were talking about knife control instead.

IMO, we need to look at what countries like the UK and China are doing, where civilian gun ownership is almost completely banned.

Mainly because, I think, these services are doing the calculation of the risk vs the proportion of users they have from the UK (already small) and that cannot figure out how to use a VPN (even smaller)

The GDPR is designed to protect citizen's right to privacy and prevent websites from just plundering and selling people's private information. We need more places to implement GDPR style laws to ensure that companies don't think that they own people's data.

Unlike the UK Internet Safety Act, the GDPR is really easy to comply with for small independent websites. It was aimed at the big companies and companies unethically mining data, and it didn't do much outside of that scope.