Bring in more countries with different set of rules, and lots of technological development will be blocked because of trying to deal with different laws instead of the creative freedom and time to do actual work in good ol' free web.
Ironically the good old web would work flawlessly
If you simply send documents and do not retain users data and do not track them, you'll be fine everywhere
If I remember correctly by default Apache kept a single log file and didn't log individual virtual hosts
the default log format doesn't save the host being called and the ip address is the one received by the socket, so it might be the ip address of a proxy server
hardly tracking stuff,but can be easily turned off
Web should be free, websites/services shouldn't be wasting time trying to comply with various laws but focus their resources on actual creativity and R&D.
In layman's terms, in my service's/app's privacy policy I should be able to say "I can do whatever I want with your data and keep it forever. Not OK with that, well don't use my service then."
No one's forcing anyone to use anything anyway.
Ah, okay, so you want to ignore the basic human rights of your users. Data protection legislation is necessary to protect us from you.
That is what freedom is, blocking people from creating stuff is not.
It's against freedom.
It would be OK if UK became more like the US but UK is not USA, in USA people don't usually get knocked on their doors by the police for their tweets. UK politicians have this desire to control the speech on the Internet, they work on stuff like identity verification when visiting porn sites.
People can be for or against Brexit in the context of government size and reach discussions however I don't see UK as getting more "free-markety" like US but more like Northern Europe style control with extra distance between the state and the people. It kind of feels like a combination of worst from the both.
when did this happen in UK?
Do you mean people broke the law with their tweets (which is like robbing a bank and showing your id to everyone there) and had to face the consequences of their actions?
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22912054/uk-grossly-offens...
[1] https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/uk-police-arrest-11-racis...
exactly.
they broke the law.
they would be arrested too if they shouted those tweets in public.
no surprises here.
just people stupid enough to break the law in public on a private platform that knows more about them than their parents.
So what? Alan Turing broke the law by doing gay stuff and was legally castrated. I'm sure things happening in Iran, Turkey, DPRK, China and Russia are mostly lawful. Slavery was lawful in many western countries up until a point, which is not too much in the past.
I would't invest too much on the "it's the law" argument outside of the courts. The legal laws are not forces of the nature, they are not like the laws of physics. They are made up.
I'm talking on the approach on the speech control. UK is more like the continental Europe. Let's say EU is using metric speech control when UK working with imperial ones and USA doesn't do that.
please not this again!
it's so tiring!
they broke the law knowing it, but hoping to hide in the anonymity of a tweet.
They hid because their actions were miserable and they knew very well.
stupid people doing stupid stuff and being caught.
no need to use Turing to justify the actions of drunk and violent racists.
let Turing out of it, please.
Anyway, these people have rights, nobody took their right to a defense in a due process away.
they have been found guilty by a regular UK court.
Not by a three letter agency that makes people disappear or the other one that brought Aaron Swartz to commit suicide.
And not in the 1950s, but few years ago.
I very much prefer to prevent it than dealing with it like USA does.
> 'm talking on the approach of the speech control
thanks god UK doesn't allow white supremacists to corrupt the minds on the youths that end up shooting to kids in schools.
People have been arrested for misgendering people. It’s total control of the speech, but total control of speech is acceptable in democracies because it is what people want. Apprently.
Nobody knocked on anybody's door.
they have been found guilty of breaking the law by a court.
they have (and had) a right to defend themselves.
Unless you think that UK courts decisions are illegal, everything's looks fine to me.
Well, to be fair the EU GDPR rules are easily summarised. They basically say: "Don't be an asshole with someone else's data".
Most sane people don't want the sort of filth that data hogging developers and their employers try to insist on imposing on their unwilling victim.
Get rid of the trackers, the un-necessary cookies, don't sell your user's data to the highest bidder, don't spam your users, you know the sort of thing .... and you'll be just fine under EU GDPR.