Business? You're a pain to many people and don't care.
I live in EU and many US pages just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws... then someone (by mistake) subscribes me to their newsletter, and the "unsubscribe" links leads to "this page is unavalable in EU"? I'll goddamn make sure your domain ends up on every goddamn possible antispam filter I can find.
For me? Sure. I never subscribed to them. Ans the unsubscribe links doesn't work, probably illegal, although not sure if they can spam an EU citizen from usa, and which/whose/what law are they breaking.
> Your hosting provider and ISP will see this differently. So will the FTC.
No. They absolutely won't. Not if I'm not breaking any US laws. The EU bitching would have as much impact as a government official from say Narau doing the same. None.
> Your butthurt about the GDPR doesn't absolve you from your obligations under the CAN SPAM act.
No. You are misunderstanding and conflating things. My point is I can do whatever I want so long as I am in compliance with US law including CAN-SPAM, and even if I violate GDPR as much as I want (again, as long as it doesn't violate US law).
It's a greyzone situation, but if you started sending (for me) spam emails to me, and your unsubscribe link doesn't work, because you decided to block the whole eu from all of your services, including the unsubscribe feature, you probably are breaking the US spam laws too.
Business? You're a pain to many people and don't care.
I live in EU and many US pages just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws... then someone (by mistake) subscribes me to their newsletter, and the "unsubscribe" links leads to "this page is unavalable in EU"? I'll goddamn make sure your domain ends up on every goddamn possible antispam filter I can find.