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Are social networks legally required to implement user banning/suspension funcionality?
So are social networks that don't allow users to be suspended/banned legal? Or they are required to implement this feature?
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When does giving a false name online become illegal?
I asked this question about providing false information to a web site. The answer indicates that it is illegal to supply a false identification document even without an intent to commit a further ...
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Who is breaking the law if a child engages in the gig economy?
There is a news story about children working for delivery apps that describes the practice as "illegal". The exact details are not clear, to me at least, so suppose the following ...
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Legal Implications of Building a Webshop for Renting Accounts
I'm considering developing a webshop platform where users can rent credentials to various website account like Udemy from each other, and I want to include a user rating system to build trust within ...
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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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Does the robots exclusion standard have any legal weight?
There is a standard through which websites communicate to the web crawlers upon which search engines are based which pages should be indexed and included in the search results. This is called the ...
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Is wiki vandalism illegal?
Is it legal to vandalize wikis if the vandal doesn't use hacked accounts? Could the vandal either be prosecuted or sued?
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Is it legal to use a chatbot as a middleman to access the Web?
In my country (Philippines) Facebook Messenger is free, without the images and video. Even if you don't purchase balance data, you can use Messenger as long as you can connect to the internet.
We want ...
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Do I need to give credit to the original writer if I rewrote something in my own words?
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Suppose I have built a computer program which fetches articles from websites, rewrites them and posts them.
Since I'm rewriting the article I think copyright law is not violated since ...
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Legality of avoiding paywalls
Many news sites have paywalls to incentivise people to pay them for their content. There are a number of ways one can get access to this content, depending on the form of the paywall:
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Can it be illegal to press f12 in a web browser?
There is a case in the news where a journalist identified a security issue in the web site of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that exposed 100,000 social security numbers....
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My ISP is injecting .swf into my webpage. How legal is this?
I recently saw a pop-up, on a http page. It was the advertisement of some offers provided by the ISP.
Here is the code:
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<object width="480" height="195" data="<url>/V3/...
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Is it legal to record streaming video for time shifting?
In the UK there is an explicit exception to copyright for the purpose of time shifting:
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the ...
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Is it legal to CC a real or fake lawyer on an email as an intimidation tactic? What if this is combined with registering a new domain?
I heard about this idea on Reddit. To intimidate someone, send them an email and CC (copy) a lawyer with their business email address with the name of the law firm they work for.
Also, you can ...
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Which laws are broken if a company rents out ransomware?
Suppose a company writes and owns a software that can be used to commit ransomware attacks (say break into someone elses IT system, encrypt everything, demand ransom for decryption). The software also ...
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