I myself would really like to have a blog again, like I used to have. Sometimes write a post or write about some software I am trying to write. However, I do not have a blog. Not, because I could not easily make one. I could indeed easily create one. I wrote multiple blog software thingies myself in the past. I do not have a blog, because of laws, where I live. There is a law, that you must put your contact information on the site, if you do any of a few things. Even though I am not doing any of those things, there are lawyers out there just waiting to send you a letter, when you do not have contact information on your page. You be careful, that nothing you write could be interpreted as "journalistic" or "ads", otherwise that lawyer might win the case. Actually you do not want a case in the first place.
I would like to write about anything I want online on a blog, for everyone to read or ignore. I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. Or about philosophy and ethics. Well, if I did that and did not provide contact info, I would be making myself a target for greedy people, who do not care about free speech.
So I stay without a blog and simply manage my git repositories. 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. I know very few blogs from my country and I think the blogging scene is basically dead here.
How about a pseudonym? Or how about I make a repository with a blog for you and give you owner access to it? It's my site, you're just invited to contribute. I don't think I need an impressum then.
> I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong.
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> 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 ?
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 ...
I would like to write about anything I want online on a blog, for everyone to read or ignore. I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. Or about philosophy and ethics. Well, if I did that and did not provide contact info, I would be making myself a target for greedy people, who do not care about free speech.
So I stay without a blog and simply manage my git repositories. 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. I know very few blogs from my country and I think the blogging scene is basically dead here.