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…

  1. 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
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  2. https://elementor.com/blog/website-legal-requirements https://www.websitepolicies.com/blog/legal-requirements-for-websites ↩︎

  3. if you have those links feel free to share ! ↩︎

  4. The one that you are using now with the domains scam. A future internet might be using TOR or GNU Name System ↩︎

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • gmestanley@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.