Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy
by InclinedPlane on Thursday February 25, 2010 @05:34AM
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P.S. Consider how widely the net from Italy's privacy code reaches. Not just sites to like youtube, vimeo, break, or even flickr, but to just about any site that allows users to post their own content, including comments. By my reading if I were to post the home address of some Italian citizen in this very comment that would be sufficient to make it possible for Paul Graham to be convicted of breach of the privacy law in Italy.
By such criteria the fraction of, say, the top 1,000 most popular web sites that could legally operate in Italy currently without being vulnerable to a legal problem of that sort is probably fairly small.
Looking at Alexa's top sites I see the following sites within just the top 40 that can't operate in Italy without risk of a prosecution of this sort: facebook, youtube, wikipedia, blogger, twitter, myspace, wordpress, amazon, ebay, linkedin, livejasmin, rapidshare, flickr, craigslist (most of the remaining sites are search engines).
By such criteria the fraction of, say, the top 1,000 most popular web sites that could legally operate in Italy currently without being vulnerable to a legal problem of that sort is probably fairly small.
Looking at Alexa's top sites I see the following sites within just the top 40 that can't operate in Italy without risk of a prosecution of this sort: facebook, youtube, wikipedia, blogger, twitter, myspace, wordpress, amazon, ebay, linkedin, livejasmin, rapidshare, flickr, craigslist (most of the remaining sites are search engines).