The fact that US users have no real say regarding these kinds of things doesn't mean that we should actively support these incompetent companies. That would be absurd.

What percentage of traffic to this local Portland news station do you think are European users? How does not catering to them, but respecting their self-declared privacy standards by not letting them see the site, make them incompetent?

Also, I don't really understand how US users don't have a say in their government, but EU users do.