Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe
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texte = Glenn Busbin wrote:> > >> >And the European authorities can pound sand trying to enforce this. Are they> >planning on setting up mandatory proxy servers throughout Europe and filtering> >all cookies? Are they planning on highing border control agents for the 'Net?> >Talk about the Nanny State mentality!> >> > Nope. Don't have to. NAFTA and the WTO stuff allow a lotta weird things, including the right of these orgs to enforce the laws of one country regarding trade, etc. in another.> No, the WTO rules only allows one country to file a complaint with the WTOabout trade complaints with another country. It does not in any way force any country to enforce the laws of another country on its own citizens. Andeven if the WTO rules in favor of the EU (which is doubtful), the most they can do is levy sanctions against countries that were found not in compliance.NOTE: any company located in Europe AND the US has to worry about this, and thenonly a little.This is completely unenforceable on its face and will not interfere with mybusiness in any way. All those people who reside in Europe can try and stopthose morons in Brussels from making fools of themselves. I'm going to ignorethis, as well as the various 'Internet Tax' proposals floating about.John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4720 Boston WayLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Paul Uttermohlen 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Glenn Busbin 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
- Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
- Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
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Glenn Busbin wrote:> > >> >And the European authorities can pound sand trying to enforce this. Are they> >planning on setting up mandatory proxy servers throughout Europe and filtering> >all cookies? Are they planning on highing border control agents for the 'Net?> >Talk about the Nanny State mentality!> >> > Nope. Don't have to. NAFTA and the WTO stuff allow a lotta weird things, including the right of these orgs to enforce the laws of one country regarding trade, etc. in another.> No, the WTO rules only allows one country to file a complaint with the WTOabout trade complaints with another country. It does not in any way force any country to enforce the laws of another country on its own citizens. Andeven if the WTO rules in favor of the EU (which is doubtful), the most they can do is levy sanctions against countries that were found not in compliance.NOTE: any company located in Europe AND the US has to worry about this, and thenonly a little.This is completely unenforceable on its face and will not interfere with mybusiness in any way. All those people who reside in Europe can try and stopthose morons in Brussels from making fools of themselves. I'm going to ignorethis, as well as the various 'Internet Tax' proposals floating about.John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4720 Boston WayLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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