106 karma · joined October 7, 2021
In Germany and its lapdog Austria there’s the mandatory impressum: fully doxxed whether you want it or not.
In Spain if you handle a database with personal information (like a forum or a blog where people can leave their email addresses along with comments) you also have to put all your data somewhere in the page so people can contact you to have themselves removed.
But hey we have cookie banners at least!
We are subject to American Puritanism because Europe has failed time and time again to create competitive social networks because of regulations and scarce access to capital. Better complain about that.
The political systems of every one of those countries are freer today than they were before the British “visited”.
> The EU just passed TERREG yesterday without a vote that requires anyone running a website with user generated content (a blog with comments, a forum etc.) and if they have significant EU user base to establish legal presence in the EU and have an officer responsible for deleting content with 1 hr SLA. That's out of reach for most of people. You cannot even block your site for EU traffic, because EU users can use VPN.
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> On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online, which included:
>The one-hour rule: a legally binding one-hour deadline for content to be removed following a removal order from national competent authorities;
This is nothing but double taxation. Ie highway robbery.
Btw, this is from 2019.
All of this gives me phpnuke vibes. Would not recommend.