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Spanish Law Regulating Commercial Websites Draws Protest
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posted by md
on Sunday October 27, @06:46AM
from the dept.
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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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