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RE: Smart Media Tokens Use Cases, Caveats And Limitations - The SMT White Paper Series, Ep. Three
This is an awesome question! I could be wrong but since you control your site (or SteemTown as you call it) you could always remove content from your site, but not the Steem blockchain which you don't control. This may satisfy the "right to be forgotten" legislation.
Yes that is a possibility I guess. I wonder if it would satisfy the EU law makers?
Thinking about it more - it's the Steem blockchain that's actually storing the content, so I would think that to operate in the EU it would need to abide by the "right to be forgotten" regulations, which it obviously can't since it's immutable. So this could potentially be a legal framework for the EU and other governments with similar laws to ban Steem-based services in their jurisdictions.
That could be a big potential problem for the future of the platform. In theory I think the same argument could be applied to Bitcoin or any blockchain really...
I have been wondering about this since I started on steemit.
I run a big community news network that has been running since 1995. It has over 60,000 pages of content and I quite regularly get right to be forgotten requests. As it is a standard web based system I can comply without a problem.
If I was editor of a steem/blockchain based network I wouldn't be able to comply.
I guess somewhere along the line, and possibly quite soon, a legal case will come up. Not sure how steemit inc will handle that - but I am sure the lawyers will be happy 😊