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The sanctions involve the government not wanting anyone to be able to read things written by Russians. Shocking. Why, you might catch a nasty case of the ol' mi
by decremental 4y ago
The sanctions involve the government not wanting anyone to be able to read things written by Russians. Shocking. Why, you might catch a nasty case of the ol' misinformation!
- anilakar 4y agoIt's not about misinformation. It is about not being allowed to do business because of affiliation with a sanctioned entity, and playing the freedom of speech card does not give you a pass in this matter.
- decremental 4y agoSo make it illegal to do business with them. If it's illegal to do business, then who cares if you read just a website?
- anilakar 4y agoBecause running that website is a business of theirs.
- decremental 4y agoThis makes no sense. Someone in Russia has to pay for their hosting bill so you visiting that website is now doing business with them? Is your definition of doing business "I visited their website?"
- simonh 4y agoPotentially yes, ‘web sites’ are applications that can provide an almost unlimited plethora of services and business functions. Fortunately in the UK we have a fairly capable and independent judiciary that has a decent track record of interpreting regulations like this in sensible ways. Not perfect, but pretty good.
- MereInterest 4y agoYes, visiting a website is a form of doing business with the entity that runs that website. Especially in today's advertisement-centric web, visiting provides advertising revenue, and supports the entity running the website.
- denton-scratch 4y agoNo. The site is supported by its advertisers, not the visitors. If the site is selling something, and the visitor buys something, then the visitor is "doing business". Reading text that is published at zero charge isn't "doing business".
- MereInterest 4y ago"Supporting", "paying", and "doing business with" are all very different concepts. At the ISP level, it is even clearer than at the individual level. The ISP is passing traffic through from an entity, based on a business relationship, either direct or transitive, with that entity.
- maskil 4y agoYour language "playing the freedom of speech card" indicates hostility to general freedom of speech arguments, and I would venture that your defense of this is motivated by a desire to suppress the speech of these unwanted persons.
- anilakar 4y agoI live in a country in top three on the Reporters Without Borders freedom of press list so I cringe every time someone talks about free speech - especially when the folks doing so are basically from a country that is currently ranked 44th.
- legalcorrection 4y agoYou can insist it’s not censorship all you want, but it’s still censorship. This is no different than what China does except in scale.