Running a small business in a way that is compliant with the law is stupidly easy: know the law.
There are professionals who spend their entire careers just "knowing" very specific parts of the law, and who are still frequently found to have misinterpreted it when tested in court.
Is doing your company's annual financial returns also stupidly easy, because you just have to know accountancy?
What about security? Just write all the software you use yourself based on your expert knowledge of cracking and cryptography?
Incidentally: not knowing you are breaking a law is no excuse for breaking the law, ignorance is not a valid defense.
This is possibly the greatest conceit in the history of legal systems. No human being in any Western nation could even read every word of law that applies to them in an entire lifetime, never mind fully understand the implications and the motivations behind those words that might be relevant to interpretation. Ignorance may not be a legal defence, but not being magically aware of the sum of all human knowledge about every legal system that you interact with is certainly a reasonable excuse for doing something illegal but otherwise apparently ethical and sensible.
There are professionals who spend their entire careers just "knowing" very specific parts of the law, and who are still frequently found to have misinterpreted it when tested in court.
Is doing your company's annual financial returns also stupidly easy, because you just have to know accountancy?
What about security? Just write all the software you use yourself based on your expert knowledge of cracking and cryptography?
Incidentally: not knowing you are breaking a law is no excuse for breaking the law, ignorance is not a valid defense.
This is possibly the greatest conceit in the history of legal systems. No human being in any Western nation could even read every word of law that applies to them in an entire lifetime, never mind fully understand the implications and the motivations behind those words that might be relevant to interpretation. Ignorance may not be a legal defence, but not being magically aware of the sum of all human knowledge about every legal system that you interact with is certainly a reasonable excuse for doing something illegal but otherwise apparently ethical and sensible.