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The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere” whereas basically any other commercial thing is only available in a physical l
by opportune 7y ago
The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere” whereas basically any other commercial thing is only available in a physical location, because that’s where the good is being sold/ the service is being offered. The main thing similar to tech is media, but even if someone in a country where some media content is banned is caught consuming that media, the consumer is punished rather than the producer.
I am actually in favor of privacy regulations. But there are two major issues that most people don’t understand
- Compliance is not easy if you do anything much more complicated than serve a static website. Basically anything business related will have PII. And you can introduce PII accidentally with things like logging, putting it in places it shouldn’t be
- Because the internet is open by default you need to comply with basically every single regulation on the planet, and the burden is fully on you to know how and why you comply with those regulations. (Some places will just firewall you, which in many ways is better, but others just want to make money off you)
- flukus 7y ago> The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere” This is very often not true. A generic website will be visible everywhere, but new online stores will typically sell domestically only by default and may expand later. Even tech giants like google will roll out services to US customers first, like when they launched the play store. Amazon in Australia is nearly unheard of, not ubiquitous like they seem to be in the US. It took netflix a decade to start here. The internet is not as universal as you think.