Geoblocking the economy that’s the largest in the US and fourth largest in the world (if it were a country) over some kid gloves regulations would be phenomenally stupid.

What else I could possibly do if complying is not technically possible?

It’s not technically possible to publish a couple of documents?

Which documents? Which are comprehensively listed where? With what indemnification for a good faith effort?

that's a ridiculous stance to take, and you could take it all day -- regulations change on the net daily, it's a full time job being totally compliant, that's why people make money (..or attempt to..) while doing it.

That is just one of the issues, administrative bloat and drag; not even to mention that it is very likely that those kinds of administrative burdens are what crushes innovation and, more importantly to the established players, competition. It is why it is known that the established large players often encourage administrative hurdles and red tape because they are established and in many cases they can just pass on the cost of administrative burdens to the consumer.

Even better for the company if those people have worked for or have friends in regulatory agency. To, uh, make sure they did it right.

You are geoblocking California from your AI company? That’s pretty significant. How much business did your AI company do in California before this news?

lol no one's going to geoblock california

What else I could possibly do if complying is not technically possible?

well certainly not geoblock a lot of your customers

maybe your situation is different, but if we geoblocked all of california we'd go out of business within a year

For global companies, California is less than 40 million people out of more than 8 billion. For regionally concentrated companies, they only have to care if the region they're concentrated in is California. For everyone else, losing a fraction of a percent of the customer base in exchange for lower compliance costs and legal risks is often completely logical.

Yeah I am with you here, but what else is to be done if legislation is passed that is impossible to comply with? Like in UK.

The GDPR and other laws were really hammed up by consultants and lawyers looking to make a lot of money claiming it was really difficult to do right, but in my experience it's incredibly overblown.

Most of who's getting caught up in these laws are very large companies that could comply but consistently don't put forth effort to do so after repeated complaints. Even if you do fall under the eye of regulators (most won't ever) if you show that you're putting forth a good faith effort to comply it's not a big deal.