Comment by constantcrying
7 months ago
You don't get it. The law is completely different for people and corporations. A corporation has the resources to figure out how exactly the law applies to them and defend that at trial. An individual does not.
It is plainly insulting to say that "adding a report button" is enough, obviously that is false. And investigating how to comply with this law is time consuming and comes with immense risk if done improperly. The fact that this law is new, means that nobody knows how exactly it has to be interpreted and that very well you might get it completely wrong. If a website has existed for 20 years with significant traffic it is almost certain that it has complied with the law, what absolutely is not certain is how complying with the law has to be done in the future.
I do not get why you have the need to defend this. "Just do X", is obviously not how this law is written, it covers a broad range of services in different ways and has different requirements for these categories. You absolutely need legal advice to figure out what to do, especially if it is you who is in trouble if you get it wrong.
> A corporation has the resources to figure out how exactly the law applies to them and defend that at trial.
A very large fraction of corporations are run on minimal margins. Some of them still do try and keep up with regulations and that is then (often) a very large part of their operating costs.
The big tech corporations which are the presumed targets of this will have absolutely zero problems paying their legal teams for the work they have to do to comply.