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Iceland Looks to Create Information Haven

40 points by admp 17y ago

admp 17y ago
Related: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-freedom-speech-wikileaks http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-fr... http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/02/12/icelanders-hope-host-controversial-data-around-world http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/02/12/icelanders-hope-h...
gruseom 17y ago
Yay Iceland. This is good news for the world. How often does one get to say that? I noticed an interesting reaction in myself while reading the article. My first thought was, "Wow, that's rational and a really good idea". That was immediately followed by, "Rats, that means that it will be killed by entrenched interests and lobbyists." Then I thought, "Hey wait a minute, this is Iceland. They're independent enough and intelligent enough to do this if they want to." Iceland appears to be a pissed-off nation that is actually correcting itself and doing things differently. Imagine that.
- afterburner 17y ago
  It helps when a country only has 300,000 people; easier to try new things.
  - iujhygfbh 17y ago
    It's also a risk of instability. What's the chance of a far-right/far-left government getting in next time and screwing you business process?
BearOfNH 17y ago
Would The Pirate Bay be welcome there as well?
iujhygfbh 17y ago
How much do you know about Icelandic privacy law? How many test cases are there? How many Icelandic IP lawyers can you hire tomorrow? There is a reason for basing your company/data in the US/London and it isn't just that they speak English.
fauigerzigerk 17y ago
So a country that depends on foreign polititians more than almost any other country at the moment is supposed to be a safe haven for wikileaks?
Yaa101 17y ago
We trusted them with finance and look what happened, why should we trust them on something that is way more important but also a thing that can be way more lethal when done wrong. Icelandic legislature and business elite is not to be trusted, certainly not with your human rights, what are these people thinking?

40 points by admp 17y ago

admp 17y ago

Related: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-freedom-speech-wikileaks http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-fr... http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/02/12/icelanders-hope-host-controversial-data-around-world http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/02/12/icelanders-hope-h...

gruseom 17y ago

Yay Iceland. This is good news for the world. How often does one get to say that? I noticed an interesting reaction in myself while reading the article. My first thought was, "Wow, that's rational and a really good idea". That was immediately followed by, "Rats, that means that it will be killed by entrenched interests and lobbyists." Then I thought, "Hey wait a minute, this is Iceland. They're independent enough and intelligent enough to do this if they want to." Iceland appears to be a pissed-off nation that is actually correcting itself and doing things differently. Imagine that.

afterburner 17y ago
It helps when a country only has 300,000 people; easier to try new things.
- iujhygfbh 17y ago
  It's also a risk of instability. What's the chance of a far-right/far-left government getting in next time and screwing you business process?

BearOfNH 17y ago

Would The Pirate Bay be welcome there as well?

iujhygfbh 17y ago

How much do you know about Icelandic privacy law? How many test cases are there? How many Icelandic IP lawyers can you hire tomorrow? There is a reason for basing your company/data in the US/London and it isn't just that they speak English.

fauigerzigerk 17y ago

So a country that depends on foreign polititians more than almost any other country at the moment is supposed to be a safe haven for wikileaks?

Yaa101 17y ago

We trusted them with finance and look what happened, why should we trust them on something that is way more important but also a thing that can be way more lethal when done wrong. Icelandic legislature and business elite is not to be trusted, certainly not with your human rights, what are these people thinking?