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RE: CAUTION - If you live in the EU this blog posting is illegal???
Well you might want to think that. But the reality is it just mean's you'r subject to every nation's laws.
Not you personally but steemit would be. Think of what is happening right now with torrent sites.
All a torrent is, is just a link. This link contains a list of trackers that know where file chunks are at.
Trackers get taken down all the time.
Steemit may be forced to comply with EU law if it doesn't assert some sort of common carrier type of status.
I really don't know how it will play out But countries have never been shy about extending their jurisdiction all the way across the world wide web.
Although I hope we never find out, but we will one day, I must admit I'm curious to see how Dan's belief in the "Non Aggression Principle" will play out if Steemit is confronted by authorities wanting them to turn over information on an individual here on Steemit (be it Name, IP, etc).
I'm going to assume it will go like this ... Steemit is not Dan, Steemit is a company located in the US, and if authorities in the US request a users information and it meets legal requirements, well they're going to hand over whatever they know about the person; be it name, location, IP, etc.
What's really going to be interesting to see is how they will handle a request from a country other than the US if that country tries to say that since the blockchain is decentralized, Steemit somehow also resides in their country as well, and attempt to force Steemit to hand over the information.
Personally I'm not an anarchist, libertarian, voluntarist or anything people tend to label me for simply reblogging others ideas I find interesting. I do like the idea of the NAP and have practiced it my entire life without knowing until the last few years that someone had given the idea of not being an asshole an acronym to sell shirts (lulz).
So, I ask those of you more schooled in these philosophies ... does it violate the NAP for Steemit to give up a users information to a government, which I think most of us agree is coercive by nature? In this scenario, let's assume this user has not initiated any sort of violence towards anyone in their post on Steemit. A government simply wants information because they claim they have violated some law within their country regarding content (posting a link as you mention above for example) or otherwise.
I have a feeling that this is going to turn out to be one of our more epic blog discussions.
The NAP to my mind doesn't provide for any sort of "common defense". If steemit is compelled by law to give away your information then they must do it. If they do not, then they run the risk of losing their own individual freedoms.
It's not a violation of NAP to "give up" someone else. It's a violation to do anything directly to harm them.