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  • March 22, 2018 at 2:31 am #422646

    Brett
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    Hello,

    Wonder if, as a review community, we can take a look at this and see how it will affect our review websites in the future?

    The way I am taking this SESTA law, if it Trump signs it: if anyone posts a bad review on one of our sites we can be sued:

    As the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out in its analysis of the bill, “This legal and policy framework has allowed for YouTube and Vimeo users to upload their own videos, Amazon and Yelp to offer countless user reviews, craigslist to host classified ads, and Facebook and Twitter to offer social networking to hundreds of millions of internet users.” But it can also affect bloggers, news organizations and anyone else who allows for public comments.

    Read more here:

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/google-will-survive-sesta-your-startup-might-not?ref=hvper.com&page=83

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2017/08/04/the-well-meaning-stop-enabling-sex-traffickers-act-could-be-a-trojan-horse/#62c4071e6cf5

    Any thoughts, ideas, protection for us as a review community??????

    March 22, 2018 at 10:30 am #422720

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    I try not to worry about these things until it is 100% guaranteed to come into force, then we have to react to it by, as i am sure the WP community would, that’s th great thing about working with WordPress, we are all in the same boat and there will be many many people who will help find solutions to new laws passed 🙂

    Stiofan

    March 22, 2018 at 2:08 pm #422758

    Brett
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    Thanks Stiofan! I’m still worried LOL!

    March 22, 2018 at 2:26 pm #422763

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    lol, these laws always seem worse at first 🙂

    March 22, 2018 at 4:37 pm #422772

    justmark
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    I would have to go with Stiofan. WordPress is a robust platform with a huge community. If this becomes law you can be sure that there will be plugins available to tackle this issue. Let’s see how it all plays out first. I would be more concerned with making sure you are GDPR compliant.

    March 22, 2018 at 6:57 pm #422784

    Brett
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    GDPR Jeez, good thing my site is not going to be in the EU. I believe Trump will sign sesta. If you look at all the googles, youtubes, amazon, twitter, facebooks, they have been preparing the last few weeks. I almost think this is solely reason why they are purging peoples accounts, not just for fake news but to get ready for this law.

    I could be wrong. I will wait and see. Hopefully it’s nothing for us. I guess it took me by surprise. I just don’t have time to keep on top of all these laws within laws.

    Thanks for the posts guys

    April 11, 2018 at 6:02 pm #426075

    Brett
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    Quick update: As of 4-11-18 SESTA is now LAW.

    April 11, 2018 at 8:09 pm #426114

    justmark
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    Just a heads up on the GDPR issue. Regardless of where you are located, if you do business with an EU country it applies. That being said, with all the concern about personal data going around because of Facebook, being GDPR compliant makes good business sense.

    April 12, 2018 at 9:21 am #426220

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    There are several things going on with WP core regarding GDPR, which is really the only sensible way to do it ( a core system devs can hook into). I assume the same will happen with SESTA.

    IMO from past experience with similar things they usually don’t start clamping down on things until about a year after the law comes in to force, as long as you have a plan in place.

    Stiofan

    April 12, 2018 at 2:27 pm #426267

    justmark
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    Agreed Stiofan. I have been tracking developments with both WP and WooCommerce. Ninja Forms has some great resources as well for GDPR compliance. Always important to stay on top of this stuff but not stress too much over it.

    April 18, 2018 at 4:00 pm #427133

    Brett
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    Great info everyone! Thank you.

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