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> You can say whatever the fuck you want. It’s your blog, you don’t need to follow any rules. I just cursed and you can’t do nothing about it, because this is m
by mbwgh 3y ago
> You can say whatever the fuck you want. It’s your blog, you don’t need to follow any rules. I just cursed and you can’t do nothing about it, because this is my blog and I do what I want. This will give you a sense of freedom that’s really cool imho.
This is unfortunately not true in many parts of the world.
Even here in Germany, any blog, including private ones, need to come with an imprint section including your full name, residential address, mobile phone number et cetera.
Even though realistically, nobody would care if I omitted this imprint section, it makes you think again whether you should actually go trough with self-hosting a blog.
In other countries it's of course way worse (think censorship and social scoring), so blogging just because you can seems to me as good a reason as any.
- rmuratov 3y agoI did not know about it. Sounds like a violation of privacy.
- omginternets 3y ago> Even here in Germany, any blog, including private ones, need to come with an imprint section including your full name, residential address, mobile phone number et cetera. This is likely a moment of cultural incongruence, but this is outright shocking to me. Generally, when I am shocked by such things, it’s because I’m unaware of the reasoning behind them. What is the reasoning behind this law, exactly?
- swilliamsio 3y agoIt piqued my curiousity too so I had a little look. It's called an Impressum. I think OP is incorrect that personal websites need to list a phone number and address - it seems to just apply to commercial entities. https://law.stackexchange.com/a/23395 https://law.stackexchange.com/a/23395 https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/websites/digital-law/a-case-for-thinking-global-germanys-impressum-laws/ https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/websites/digital-law/a-...
- mbwgh 3y agoSee my reply to another commentor [0]. In short, the situation is a little confusing since even though your private blog may not be commercial, it may be regarded "businesslike" nontheless [1]. That being said, this legislation has been in place for some years now. I am not aware of any private person actually having had to face legal ramifications because of this and personally I would just omit it and say bring it. Still, you see lots of private German blogs which do have an inprint, if you look out for it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745481 [1] https://www-checkdomain-de.translate.goog/blog/bloggen/fortgeschrittene/das-impressum/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-checkdomain-de.translate.goog/blog/bloggen/fortg...
- guy98238710 3y ago> Even here in Germany, any blog, including private ones, need to come with an imprint section including your full name, residential address, mobile phone number et cetera. How can this be consistent with GDPR? AFAIK, WHOIS data had to be concealed because of GDPR.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoHow does the law define a "blog"? If you had an account on LiveJournal, would you have to put an imprint in the profile? What if you're microblogging on Twitter? Vlogging on YouTube?
- mbwgh 3y agoI am not sure about that. Even for conventional blogs, I would say that the legal situation is not really clear. Non-legal advice often is "if it's non-commercial, you don't need an imprint", see e.g. documentation by Hetzner [0]. On the other hand, if you visit pages that do offer legal advice, the situation is suddenly way more nuanced. This page ([1], German, but you will surely be able to translate it) makes the following points and describes the situation as I remember it: * Commercial page targeting a German market or residing in Germany: you need an imprint * Some blog that generates 1 cent of ad revenue: you need an imprint * Private blog which reaches a large audience and publishes on a regular basis: You need an imprint The last one is of course not well-defined (what is a large audience, at what point do you publish regularly). And I think you can always assume that you have the "intention" of reaching a large audience, e.g. if you blog about anything that is not obviously irrelevant to the majority of people, like something technical. So in summary, many lawyers advice you to add an imprint section even for a private blog, just to be on the safe side. [0] https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/impressum-faq/ https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/impressum-faq/ [1] https://www.abmahnung.org/blog-impressum/ https://www.abmahnung.org/blog-impressum/