> > I was playing the role of someone who wants to start up a website on the side but isn't an expert on computers, networking, software development, or international privacy law. > If you're not an expert, you have to get one. Same reason why you cannot just go and plan a non-trivial building by yourself when you're not a architect or civil engineer.

This attitude is really sad to me. It was and is one of the greatest things about the internet, that pretty much anyone anywhere could publish something. If you now need an "expert" to do that, we've lost something.