The Weird Intersection of the Internet and Extra Territoriality

The EU has created a law that everyone in the world has to follow, even if you're not an EU company. There's just something that strikes me as a little bit off or weird about this that I can't articulate. By default, all tech companies have any people who are using their services in the European Union,. They have to comply with the GDPR in order to continue to function there.