Questions tagged [internet]
For questions about the internet. Please ensure a tag for the jurisdiction is also included. This tag should not be used when the question does not crucially hinge on internet usage or involvement.
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Are the fees incurred by phone owners to receive verification-codes sent as sms messages legal?
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Are the fees incurred by phone owners to receive verification-codes sent as sms messages legal ?
When registering to make new email-accounts( etc ) those companies often send you a ...
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How to best approach dealing with a cybercriminal in a distant country harassing an entire internet community? [closed]
For years now, one person has been persistently doing everything they could to make the lives of several administrators/moderators miserable and as a consequence directly and indirectly prevented the ...
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Are foreign sellers exempt from consumer protection laws?
German law offers certain protections for online buyers, essentially the right to return the goods for a refund within 14 days and a certain warranty within 2 years of purchase.
I was under the ...
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Took a picture of a bus stop showing a poster of a well known soccer player
Is it OK to post a picture I took of a bus stop I saw displaying a poster of a well known soccer player? Since then, I've seen it in many bus stops throughout the city.
Want to post it on my website. ...
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Is it legal to change user agent?
Assume (hypothetically), I'm using jsoup to download certain news website in my public android app. When I don't change user-agent in jsoup it redirects me to another website.
Is it legal to change ...
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Is it illegal for websites to host children fighting with the purpose of humiliation
A video recently came to my attention that involved two children ages approximately 5,and 6, or so and the video consisted of the boy and girl wrestling - but not in a fair competition, but to ...
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is uncensorship in japanese porn illegal
According to some laws in japan censorship is a must for adult films but why does uncensored porn in JAPANESE ADULT VIDEOS ,PORNHUB,ETC exist is that legal? of not what charges they could be facing?
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Is there a law that regulates charging an online account to which the owner has no access?
Is it legal for an online service to charge an account holder credit card for services that are contingent on the account holder being able to manage their account if the account holder's access has ...
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Is it legal for a business to deny me access to their store on the basis of how I look? [closed]
Is it legal for a business to use discriminatory (and notoriously false-positive) fingerprinting algorithms that prevent me from loading their website purely on the basis of how I look (as opposed to ...
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Can Meta create a Twitter clone?
Meta is about to release an app called Threads that has been labeled by news sources as a Twitter rival or Twitter clone.
I don't know how similar Threads actually is to Twitter, but hypothetically if ...
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How are "deep fakes" defined in the Online Safety Bill?
It is in the news that sharing deepfake intimate images to be criminalised in England and Wales in the Online Safety Bill:
Sharing deepfake intimate images is to be criminalised in England and Wales. ...
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Hotlinking online radio streams
I want to create an online radio directory, with the ability to play the radio stations on my website. For sure, I will only add the radio stations which are broadcasting online and are offering an ...
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Legal liability of websites for text produced by chat bots such as ChatGPT
To what extent is a website hosted in the US legally liable for the output of an AI chat bot?
For example, if ChatGPT produced the phrase:
kill yourself
and OpenAI distributed this phrase to me over ...
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Legal consequences of an accidental Google search
I am someone who frequents several imageboards. As often happens, because there's complete anonymity, people often say the most insane, outrageous and vile stuff imaginable. Against my better ...
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Is Scamming Extortion in New York?
Welcome to the Internet, where people are the worst and want money for nothing:
Alice is a normal citizen of New York with an e-mail address. She receives an E-mail from Bob, a New York State Citizen, ...
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