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Spanish Law Regulating Commercial Websites Draws Protest
posted by md on Sunday October 27, @06:46AM
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Internet Governance Webmasters in spain are protesting a new law that took effect on October 12 and requires all commercial websites to register with the government and follow certain guidelines in operating their website. The trouble, it seems, is that the definition of "commercial" is unclear and would purportedly affect even the smallest and least-profitable sites in Spain. In response, some webmasters are pulling their sites offline as a measure of protest. Wired.com has the full scoop.

Professor Jonathan Zittrain notes in the article that some parts of the Spanish law, which allow Spain to shut down foreign websites if their owners are within Spain, are comparable to censorship efforts recently discovered in Saudi Arabia.

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    Limts on Commerciality (Score:3)
    by md on Sunday October 27, @10:16PM (#435)
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    If the UDRP panelists of the world interpreted this law, the entire Internet would be under regulation. I have very little faith in any government deciding what on the Internet is "commercial."
    Re:Limts on Commerciality (Score:1)
    by dtobias on Monday October 28, @06:53AM (#436)
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    Well, it doesn't help the case of sites much when they proclaim their noncommerciality but then insist on using a .com address, thus purporting by their very URL to be commercial. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?

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