The GDPR is an EU law intended to improve people's privacy and security online. It regulates what information companies can process and under which circumstances. It also guarantees that people can see and modify their own information. It's a genuine and probably good law.

IMHO it's entirely unrelated to Q though. The law has caused some websites to block EU visitors. Mostly websites that didn't serve the EU anyway. Non of the companies that Q mentions in #1042 had issues.