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Out of curiosity can I ask which country it is?

• wendyshu 4y ago
  I love it when people reference "my country" and don't say the country.
• anigbrowl 4y ago
  Germany. I think the GP is exaggerating the legal risk.
  • zelphirkalt 4y ago
    Maybe I am, maybe I am not. You can have great fun with Abmahnanwaelten (lawyers, who are in the business of threatening people for their supposedly unlawful actions), if your blog is missing your address. The law says, that you can get fined up to 50k€ for that. Obviously it will very likely not be that much for a measly blog. You need to put your address, if you have any advertisement on your website, do anything journalistic, or, if you are organizing any kind of group on German territory. Probably some more conditions which I forgot. Want to make a post about your favorite restaurants? Oh, that could be seen as an ad! Better not post it! Want to rant a little about something silly some politician has done? Ooops! That could be seen as journalist activity! Want to post a datetime and location of the next meeting of your favorite hobby group? Organizing people on German territory! You can see it is very easy to make a mistake. Not likely, that anyone will even find your blog or care, but also not nice to run the risk. On the other hand I don't want everyone on the Internet to know where I live, so I cannot put an "Impressum" there either. I have read up on things like: "Can I put a post box there?" and similar ideas, but there have been cases in which courts decided, that this is not sufficient any longer.