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Spanish Web Sites Go Blank To Protest New Rules

Posted by timothy on Monday October 28, 2002 @05:56AM from the march-of-the-state dept.

Diver777 writes "New tough rules for websites in Spain have caused at least 300 websites to go blank in protest. The new rules call for any site which generates revenue to register with the government. The law would also apply to foreign-hosted Web sites if the people transacting business on them are physically in Spain. Get the Yahoo story here."

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Re:Businesses by crow · 2002-10-28 06:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

It depends. Are they saying that web-based businesses have to follow the same rules, or are the creating new web-specific rules? In other words, if the transactions were done by phone instead of by web, would the rules be the same? (They should be, but that doesn't mean that they are.)