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by johnchristopher
1617 days ago
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> I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. > [..] > It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call. Not saying you would write anything bad but what's fun to one can be libel or hate speech to another. "It was just a joke, dude" shouldn't fly. That's one of the reasons some of these laws are in place. Of course it runs the gamut between an healthy democracy with free speech and an authoritarian and controlling state. With that being said I am curious about lawyers out there just waiting. Do they have anything to win or any legs to stand on if what you wrote doesn't concern them and no clients is asking them to write a letter to you ? What's the situation like in practice ? |
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Not sure I want to find out in practice. You can be ruled to have to pay up to what was it? 25k or 50k€. In the past there have been "Abmahnwellen" (literal translation "sue waves"), where lawyers tons of letters to any website superficially not conforming to the law. I wish they were doing that now with GDPR in place, but it does not seem to happen for some reason. Perhaps because organizations can fight back more easily or are less easily cowed into paying fines and thus would be too much work for them. Writing about anything political could be interpreted as "journalistic" and I would actually be breaking the law, not having contact info of specific form on my site. The law is even formulated in a way, that you must put contact info, even if you host your site in other countries or regions, because you "operate" here. In the post cases have shown, that you also cannot use a mail box / post box as contact info either.
I guess you could make a blog on some random blogging site, not self hosted, so that one could not get your name by asking the hoster of your server and by using a fake name and always connecting to it using a reliable VPN service. But yeah, that would be against the law ...