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It's very sad that enthusiasts running a wordpress blog to share their interests with the world now have to hire lawyers and tech experts to evaluate their site

It's very sad that enthusiasts running a wordpress blog to share their interests with the world now have to hire lawyers and tech experts to evaluate their sites and determine to what extent all their plugins are legally compliant or face comments assaulting them, and their comments responding stricken. The result is that interesting and useful information being shared by amateurs is systematically being targeted and banned from the internet. Soon everything will be corporate views only thanks to these laws and their intolerant fundamentalist advocates, both which are intentionally destroying vast parts of human culture and knowledge. For this reason, these laws, and their advocates both, are extremely evil entities.

saagarjha 8y ago
> For this reason, these laws, and their advocates both, are extremely evil entities. That's some nice alliteration you've got there, but I'm still of the opinion that you are responsible for what goes on your website. I run a blog just like the author does, but I unlike him I am not flippant about legislation designed to protect my readers' privacy. Since it's my website, I can ensure that I don't run cookies at all, which means I don't have to hire "lawyers and tech experts". And finally, I'm pretty sure the comment was automatically flagged due to its tone and the fact that the account was new.
zokier 8y ago
If something is not able to selfregulate then external regulation must be accepted. And such external regulation tends to be less nice to its subjects than selfregulation, almost by necessity. If the web would not have gone overboard with tracking and data abuse, then EU wouldn't have needed to put up all these stupid laws. Alas, the greed of mankind made it no so, so here we are