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No website is "hosted solely in a country" by default. When your website is available to the world, apparently according to the US, you're liable under any jurisdiction out there:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12243592/kickass-torrents...

That's why there are so many shitty american middle-of-nowhere Daily Star Gazettes that block EU visitors with a laughable "our EU visitors are important for us". It seems that they agree with GDPR that it covers them if they serve anything to EU citizens.



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