That’s the case in germany. Unless you give your explicit consent of course

ElProlactin 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not German but I'd venture a guess that people still receive unsolicited outreach in Germany.

The internet is global. A person sitting in Palo Alto, a shack in a rural village in Southeast Asia, etc. doesn't care about German law and is, in all but a few exceptional cases, beyond its reach in the real world.

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dgellow 7 hours ago | parent [-]

People do breach laws, yes. I don’t understand your point

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ElProlactin 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is that Germany saying "you can't contact someone by email unless they want you to" is practically unenforceable in the real world. So it's pointless.

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dgellow 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s regularly enforced… are your local laws pointless because other countries aren’t concerned? Is free speech in the US pointless because North Korea or China doesn’t respect it?

	▲	ElProlactin 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Regularly enforced against who? Let's say some company or "entrepreneur" sitting in an office in Palo Alto or in his house in the Philippines wants to sell a SaaS app they vibe coded in a week. They use AI to create a marketing email and list of targets. They blast it out and it lands in the inbox of some dude in Germany. Do you really think the company or individual is going to ever face any consequences for sending the guy an email?

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gyanchawdhary 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Correct. They are quite a sensitive demographic when it comes to human contact.