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Comment by huang_chung | Hacker News Reader

Accepting censorship as a lost cause will be detrimental to society.

Websites are subject to the laws in which they are based, not the packets' destination!

Example: Germany requires Impressum displayed upon the website. It is requires only for sites based in Germany and not enforceable anywhere else!

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Those are the old days. Today every website has that cookie banner because of EU laws.

Thank god for ublock. Worth it, just to get rid of that nonsense. Whatever apparatchik came up with that, should be tried for crimes against humanity.

HN does not have cookie banner? Should they? Is HN subject to the laws of EU?

Cookie banners are not mandated by law, disclosure of and consent to tracking and capturing private user data and its sharing to third parties is. Cookie banners are just the easiest UX pattern to slap on to an existing website, and lends itself to dark patterns so users blindly click "accept all". There's multiple browser extensions that exist that will automatically opt you out and you never have to see those cookie banners again.

The topic was the "worldwide reach" of the laws, not the cookies themselves.

You have too black and white a view of this. It's not about accepting censorship, it's about refining the governing laws. Shouting "Fire" in the theater has always been a good line to draw, and a way to discuss what is healthy vs. not us important.

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