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Not to be repetitive, but- let's say your website has visitors from Thailand, and you do something to defame their monarch. Are you in compliance with Thai law?
by hash872 5y ago
Not to be repetitive, but- let's say your website has visitors from Thailand, and you do something to defame their monarch. Are you in compliance with Thai law? What if you have Chinese visitors, are you subject to Chinese law? What if the Central African Republic passes some completely out-there law and you have CAE visitors- do you feel like you need to comply with the laws of the Central African Republic? If not, why not?
Let's just think this out- seeing as your visitors can come from any of the 300+ countries on Earth, you are saying that by hosting a website, you must simultaneously comply with the Internet laws of every country on the planet. Please just consider how ridiculous that is for a moment
- tobylane 5y agoIf you speak in your country and someone hears it where it's illegal then that's of no interest to you. But if you visit someone's home and they add your name to their guestbook you may care that you're in the records. Yes, it's reaching beyond borders, but I like this one more than any of the other examples of that. I could repetitively make up new analogies to explain my opinion (and subsequent actions in democracy), but after a moment's consideration that would be ridiculous.