The “About” page suggests that what is on- and off-topic is determined by which tags exist (unfortunately? maybe incorrectly? or maybe I’m just misunderstanding). Perhaps this tag should be changed to say “tech law” if the community doesn’t want to see arbitrary interesting legal articles.
I believe that it is understood that all of those tags function in the context of technology. Otherwise we’d expect to see (further) abuse of the culture, art, law, and other tags.
Lobsters is just as much about what isn’t here as it is what is here.
I have received a threatening letter from the city’s government in which they are warning me that I have to pay them a certain amount of money for the usage of the name ******** in the name of my Facebook page. If I don’t start paying them, they will start their Facebook teams and contact the court so that they could shut down my Facebook profile.
All other Facebook pages that promote the city and have the noun ******** in its name got the identical threats.
So it’s not a blanket ban on typing the name of the city, but we’re going to act like it is?
Is this any different from the fact I might have trouble creating a Facebook page called Xerox, but yet the internet police aren’t going to come get me for writing this comment with the word Xerox in it?
However, the chance that the city will actually go against a civilian for his usage of the city’s name still seems a little ridiculous, doesn’t it?
Except, this actually happened to an owner of a Facebook page with ~14k page
And, yes, there is a button, along with:
Since this decision defies all logic, and since I have already broken this decision unintentionally a lot of times, I have decided to add a button on the bottom of this article. By clicking on it, this article will no longer be censored, which will make me break the city’s decision exactly 38 times.
Completely aware of the possible legal consequences of me mentioning the word […], I encourage you to click that button. After doing so, this article will stop being censured.
Therefore, I think the author there is an issue with the law, and defies it at his scale.
This is a curious legal thing, but it isn’t tech related at all. Maybe a better fit over at HN or Reddit.
The “About” page suggests that what is on- and off-topic is determined by which tags exist (unfortunately? maybe incorrectly? or maybe I’m just misunderstanding). Perhaps this tag should be changed to say “tech law” if the community doesn’t want to see arbitrary interesting legal articles.
I believe that it is understood that all of those tags function in the context of technology. Otherwise we’d expect to see (further) abuse of the culture, art, law, and other tags.
Lobsters is just as much about what isn’t here as it is what is here.
Wild guess without reading article: the city did something and we’re going to pretend they did something else so we can be extra mad. Close?
So it’s not a blanket ban on typing the name of the city, but we’re going to act like it is?
Is this any different from the fact I might have trouble creating a Facebook page called Xerox, but yet the internet police aren’t going to come get me for writing this comment with the word Xerox in it?
If you highlight the REDACTED “black rectangles” in the text, you can see the name of the city.
So author is actually using the name of the city. Uh, oh.
At the very end there’s also a button to un-redact those, so the author obviously doesn’t really think there’s an issue using the name.
And, yes, there is a button, along with:
Therefore, I think the author there is an issue with the law, and defies it at his scale.