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I think it is a free speech issue if "we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool" which is what I predict.

lucideer 9y ago
> we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it: 1. The blog is using a non-compliant commenting system. This may be hand-rolled or 3rd-party: in either case, disabling comments is a common-sense measure to stay up. No legal complexity of any document should obscure the simplicity of this solution. 2. The hosting company hosting the blogging platform is non-compliant and gets shut down completely. In this case, your argument re: the company being small and not understanding legalese hopefully shouldn't apply. If they're shutting down websites, those websites are offering a user-oriented service of some kind, and should get their act together w.r.t. understanding the legal implications of doing this, no matter how small they are. If you're not processing user data, you're not a target. Exercising free speech does not require processing user data.
- ptaipale 9y ago
  > If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it: There are other possible reasons. Like "we don't like it". I live in the country where the corruption index (calculated by Transparency International) is lowest in the world. Still, we have a "black list" of web sites that the police distributes to Internet access providers to block users from accessing the sites. The legal basis of this is supposed to be stopping child pornography, but still, the mechanism is used for blocking sites that criticize the police, and have no pornography at all. And there is no legal mechanism to challenge the police and stop them from doing this. GDPR gives many additional tools for authorities to perform censorship like this.

lucideer 9y ago

> we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it: 1. The blog is using a non-compliant commenting system. This may be hand-rolled or 3rd-party: in either case, disabling comments is a common-sense measure to stay up. No legal complexity of any document should obscure the simplicity of this solution. 2. The hosting company hosting the blogging platform is non-compliant and gets shut down completely. In this case, your argument re: the company being small and not understanding legalese hopefully shouldn't apply. If they're shutting down websites, those websites are offering a user-oriented service of some kind, and should get their act together w.r.t. understanding the legal implications of doing this, no matter how small they are. If you're not processing user data, you're not a target. Exercising free speech does not require processing user data.

ptaipale 9y ago
> If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it: There are other possible reasons. Like "we don't like it". I live in the country where the corruption index (calculated by Transparency International) is lowest in the world. Still, we have a "black list" of web sites that the police distributes to Internet access providers to block users from accessing the sites. The legal basis of this is supposed to be stopping child pornography, but still, the mechanism is used for blocking sites that criticize the police, and have no pornography at all. And there is no legal mechanism to challenge the police and stop them from doing this. GDPR gives many additional tools for authorities to perform censorship like this.