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Originally Posted by meraxes
Not in a civilized country. Certainly not in the United States. In Poland? You tell me.
" Federal laws prohibit discrimination based on a person's national origin, race, color, religion, disability, sex, and familial status. Laws prohibiting national origin discrimination make it illegal to discriminate because of a person's birthplace, ancestry, culture or language. This means people cannot be denied equal opportunity because they or their family are from another country..."
http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/natorigin.php |
No, certainly not in United States. I'm not sure about Poland as I'm no law expert - but if in Poland there is such a law, I don't think anyone has tried to use it to make other people pay money or intervene in the way they do business yet. And somehow the economy is working. I don't consider this law a step towards civilisation, and hope US will turn back towards freedom someday.
EDIT: It might be interesting seeing e-publishers being sued for discrimination, but they would probably say that they're not allowed to sell to people from different countries, so the decision is not theirs, just a result of the contracts. I wonder if that would mean they should stop selling ebooks altogether to refrain from breaching the law.
Sorry for the offtopic, as I see that the discussion has drifted.