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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitude
https://archive.org/details/0000-00-00-00-etienne-de-la-boetie-00_202201/1548-00-00_Discourse on Voluntary Servitude_1942_org/mode/2up
– ↩︎https://elementor.com/blog/website-legal-requirements https://www.websitepolicies.com/blog/legal-requirements-for-websites ↩︎
if you have those links feel free to share ! ↩︎
The one that you are using now with the domains scam. A future internet might be using TOR or GNU Name System ↩︎
Typically for personal sites; you can comply with the rules after its asked and it wont cause much issue.
At most you’ll be blocked from view in said country; so complying with the rules where blocking will cause problem is generally applied.
mandatory legal notices that governments impose for websites
No idea what you’re referring to.
Thank you for this post, this is quite insightful. I don’t know a lot about the technical specifications of websites, but I do hope that there can be healthy discussion here.
