cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13465911

Hi,

I’m confuse about those mandatory legal notices that governments impose for websites…

Before going further I invite you to read:
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
and
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude^[1] \

From all the articles^[2] that I read about the mandatory notice to display for website none of them reference the URL of their claim !! / of the legal text !! WTF^[3]

Internet is by essence world wide, and when reading all those legal requirement it’s seem that you should display notices for EVERY country !

it’s seem also that if you own a private website, just for your own or family use, like for example a web file hosting services. (NextCloud etc…) You should comply with the same requirement that are asked for company ! again… WTF !

Also I don’t understand, why make mandatory those notices…(beside the scam (money) ) , I’ll come back to this below.

• If you want to buy something off a website, and this later do not mentions any legal address , contact info and so on, the responsibility to buy or not should be only yours. (For example, will you buy a yogurt in the supermarket if there were no brand, contact info on the packing or bill ?)
• if the state want to censor “regulate” a website on the old internet^[4] there is plenty of way to know who is the author or at the very least where is it hosted…
• if a website use/distribute a copyrighted© elements. The right holder can do/contact in the following order:
  • check the website for contact (if any)
  • check the DNS record
  • check the hosting
  • contact the owner of the IP (IP are leased by company…/ ISP )

So there is no sense to ask everyone that extra heavy burden. The only advantage is for law firm (and those cookies related firm) that make a profit out of it. I heard in my entourage peoples that had pay thousandth of $$ to generate those text, keep up to date etc… even for small website.

• If you think those legal notice are a good thing please do not hesitate to motivate your answer.
• If you have any good links about it, feel free to share.
• What are you doing your self on website of customer and/or for your private websites ?
• if you know a Lemmy community worth to share this post, step forward.

Thanks…