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So 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 ago
  Because running that website is a business of theirs.
  • decremental 4y ago
    This 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 ago
      Potentially 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 ago
      Yes, 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 ago
        No. 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.