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Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter

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Re: Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter

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post #79

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that policy is probably about a couple years old.

Is there a site that tracks these sorts of policy changes (like http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ does for UK laws)?

"TOSBack is a collaboration between the EFF, the Internet Society, and ToS;DR. Every day, we check the Terms and Policies of many online services to see if any of them have changed"

https://tosback.org/

But it is currently in beta and doesn't include Kickstarter.

Re: Laser Razor suspended by Kickstarter

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post #124

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The Feds go after people who just walk away with the money. They do not, and should not, go after people who fail to achieve the objective -- that would defeat the point of crowdfunding.

> They do not, and should not, go after people who fail to achieve the objective -- that would defeat the point of crowdfunding. I agree. But they can somehow force the hands of Kickstarter and its competitors to have some mechanism in place to protect consumers from contributing to such bogus projects. I looked at the Kickstarter page and it seems any creature can post and request their projects be funded. Some of t…

Sure, some validation is important, and Kickstarter has their own incentive to ensure some baseline quality independent of regulation. Fraudsters should be prosecuted, but I hope that people aren't discouraged from launching Kickstarter initiatives because they're afraid of genuine product execution risk turning into personal criminal or civil liability.
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