Promised article on racism

[Woods]

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Hi Vijay,

Here's the piece I managed to compose from our discussion:

https://www.presskiss.com/post2/

Let me know what you think, what else I should include and so on.

I would also like to hear opinion on the following:

1) the website's name:

It was very difficult to find a free domain name - I was considering different options but that was the only thing that was free and sounded right. However, when searching for "presskiss" in Google, I initially found pornography and so on. So I would like to know what is the first thing that comes to a native's mind when he or she hears this word and if it works well as a memorable name of a news media.

2) the article's title - if I just call it "Can you thrive as one of colour in a racist world?" - is it clear enough, or do you think it's better to call it "Can you thrive as a person of colour in a racist world?" As always, I am trying to shorten my phrases as much as possible, especially when they are titles, but it also needs to be understandable.

As you saw, it took me forever to publish it and fix all the little details on the webpage I wanted to fix before I share it with the worldwide web, but now I think it is already at the point where I should start filling it with content :)

[vijayjohn]

Do you want me to respond in this thread?

[Woods]

Do you want me to respond in this thread?

As you prefer - I put it here because at the end I thought it might be interesting to other people to read it, but we can as well discuss it in private messages.

[awrui]

I don't care about y'alls internet drama.
But I have something constructive to say about the website: If you are serious about it, you need a sithe notice/publishing information or such. If the author of an article doesn't even have a name, and the site is owned by nobody, it might as well belong to some random russian troll and all the text is worth nothing. Time stamps for articles are important, too.

[Woods]

I have something constructive to say about the website: If you are serious about it, you need a sithe notice/publishing information or such. If the author of an article doesn't even have a name, and the site is owned by nobody, it might as well belong to some random russian troll and all the text is worth nothing. Time stamps for articles are important, too.

It has a time stamp. I don't want to add my name to the articles just yet, and there are only two articles so not too many authors to mention just yet. But of course, in the future they will be accredited if they want to!

[linguoboy]

But I have something constructive to say about the website: If you are serious about it, you need a sithe notice/publishing information or such. If the author of an article doesn't even have a name, and the site is owned by nobody, it might as well belong to some random russian troll and all the text is worth nothing. Time stamps for articles are important, too.

Yeah, my browser won't even display the page because of security issues.

[Car]

Also, don't you need to have legal details on your site where you live? I mean stuff like a name and an address. Of course I don't know what the legal situation is like where you live, but you might want to look into that.

[md0]

Also, don't you need to have legal details on your site where you live? I mean stuff like a name and an address. Of course I don't know what the legal situation is like where you live, but you might want to look into that.

I think that's more of a DACH-specific exception, rather than the norm. Although I remember that at one point in the late 2000s Greece wanted to regulate blogs as newspapers (which have to have a legal representative), but I don't think that ever came to pass.

Doesn't even the German law exclude non-commercial websites though?

[Woods]

Yeah, my browser won't even display the page because of security issues.

It must be fine now.

[linguoboy]

Yeah, my browser won't even display the page because of security issues.

It must be fine now.

Nope!

(I use Firefox, which is extremely cautious in matters of security.)

[vijayjohn]

Weird, I use Firefox, too, and it's been working just fine for me this whole time...

[Woods]

Yeah, my browser won't even display the page because of security issues.

It must be fine now.

Nope!

(I use Firefox, which is extremely cautious in matters of security.)

Me too! I use Firefox both on my PC and on my mobile phone, indeed as soon as you said that there was a security problem I checked if my phone loaded the SSL certificate properly and found it didn't, unlike my computer which did, and contacted my hosting provider who said there was something with the redirection definitions and we fixed it. In any case you should be able to solve the problem by adding an s to the http in the beginning (i.e. make sure the whole address starts with https://). But now it should do it automatically - and it does both on my PC and my phone, so maybe it's something to do with the cache of your browser since it didn't work before? Anyone else have such a problem?

[Car]

Also, don't you need to have legal details on your site where you live? I mean stuff like a name and an address. Of course I don't know what the legal situation is like where you live, but you might want to look into that.

I think that's more of a DACH-specific exception, rather than the norm. Although I remember that at one point in the late 2000s Greece wanted to regulate blogs as newspapers (which have to have a legal representative), but I don't think that ever came to pass.

Doesn't even the German law exclude non-commercial websites though?

Well, I wouldn't know, that's why I worded it like that.
No, it's more complicated than that. A link.

[md0]

No, it's more complicated than that. A link.

Awesome, thanks. Seems like I'm at the mercy of a grey area of § 55 RStV that is still to be tested in courts (I only knew of the Telemediengesetz before)
But since Woods here is doing journalistic work, they'd already be liable if they have a Germany connection.

[Woods]

No, it's more complicated than that. A link.

Awesome, thanks. Seems like I'm at the mercy of a grey area of § 55 RStV that is still to be tested in courts (I only knew of the Telemediengesetz before)
But since Woods here is doing journalistic work, they'd already be liable if they have a Germany connection.

What is a Germany-connection - if I report about Germany, if I host my website on a German website or what? That sounds like a totalitarian assault on free speech, and I'm starting to be glad I didn't buy that Swiss hosting.