While you were protesting for looting rights
That side passed the EARN-IT act and that side went on with their upload filters
i just been reading Julia Reda's analysis of the German implementation (proposal i suppose b/c lex actually means "not set in stone" in modern Latin)
and ...
(i understand as often that not only americans have trouble understanding this European Union ... because its not really a united states and such)
The E.U. has voted to pass it , NOW the member states get to apply it (IF they choose to do so ... normally ofcourse they will, especially the poor ones because it's unwise to go against the grain ... bad for your political pension fund and stuff)
But there's leeway - everyone gets to interpret it , meaning, in the less open-sourced (lets call it that) nations ... a lot of actual opinion will be scrutinized for inclusion and removed on claims of
On the other hand, even mighty germany leaves open loopholes (the citizens didnt want it, they made that VERY clear but HEY, sir ... this is not a court of democracy, this is enlightened despotism and the E.U. has spoken ... especially in Merkel country ... since its a bit of her little baby-child, after a fashion, she put way too much time in it to let it all slide
Pre-flagging and what not : users can pre-flag content that included third party content (and ... several paragraphs later)
which means that content can not be automatically blocked ... ( ! ) HOWEVER ... it CAN BE if its obvious infringement (meaning if i understand obvious to an automated system or a.i. im gonna have to read it twice, even if ms. Reda is quite clear and consise, its still legalism analyzed)
SO ... you there dear @steemit and maybe who was that @justinsunsteemit ... barring the fact that it might play out differently in each separate member state you have this thing where
"platforms" are held liable -
(i assume thats why EOS voice is too cowardly to start up in Europe until further notice among other things)
IT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM ON AN IMMUTABLE CHAIN with no cooldown period before data gets locked
and there we go :)
you might wanna read up at the very least and hopefully you don't decide that
european users can keep access to the wallet but under the current laws it becomes impossible for us to ...(and several paragraphs later)
because that would suk
ass ... and also monkey dick
hey i just upvoted you and followed you can you follow me back and upvote my recent post pls.