The in fact important part is this: The Law requires that all companies and individuals who are registered as entrepreneurs in Belarus use only domestic Internet domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging email messages. (emphasis mine).
"It appears that business requests from Belarus cannot be served over the Internet if the service provider is using online services located outside of the country."
"Commentators believe that these measures will lead to outside websites blocking access from Belarus. For example, suppose someone in Belarus buys something from Amazon, which is not a Belarusian company and thus is not registered in Belarus. The transaction is illegal, and so the Belarusian Attorney General would send a note to Amazon informing it that it is violating national law and might be sued. "
(Part of the problem is that LoC is dealing with a translation of a legal document, yes. However, when their lede is that getting "service" from a foreign website has become illegal, and Belarusan commentators are agreeing, I have no problem believing that the wording is so terrible that it's basically a former-Soviet SOPA.)
"Additionally, the Law states that the owners and administrators of Internet cafés or other places that offer access to the Internet might be found guilty of violating this Law and fined and their businesses might be closed if users of Internet services provided by these places are found visiting websites located outside of Belarus and if such behavior of the clients was not properly identified, recorded, and reported to the authorities. "
It also would appear to apply to not using services like PayPal in the process of handling a business transaction. All in all, simply a horrible law.
Heck, it's illegal to use name servers outside of Belarus. Depending on your interpretation of "services", it's illegal to have your Belarus mail server make contact with a non-Belarus server for the purpose of receiving or sending email from/to outside Belarus.
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-03 02:55 pm (UTC)"Commentators believe that these measures will lead to outside websites blocking access from Belarus. For example, suppose someone in Belarus buys something from Amazon, which is not a Belarusian company and thus is not registered in Belarus. The transaction is illegal, and so the Belarusian Attorney General would send a note to Amazon informing it that it is violating national law and might be sued. "
(Part of the problem is that LoC is dealing with a translation of a legal document, yes. However, when their lede is that getting "service" from a foreign website has become illegal, and Belarusan commentators are agreeing, I have no problem believing that the wording is so terrible that it's basically a former-Soviet SOPA.)
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:55 pm (UTC)"Additionally, the Law states that the owners and administrators of Internet cafés or other places that offer access to the Internet might be found guilty of violating this Law and fined and their businesses might be closed if users of Internet services provided by these places are found visiting websites located outside of Belarus and if such behavior of the clients was not properly identified, recorded, and reported to the authorities. "
It also would appear to apply to not using services like PayPal in the process of handling a business transaction. All in all, simply a horrible law.
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Date: 2012-01-03 03:00 pm (UTC)Major points still are:
The rest is just dictatorial handwaving, to have something in law with which to silence criticism, which is nothing new under Lukashenko.
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Date: 2012-01-03 05:30 pm (UTC)