URGENT - EU has voted for censorship - Many EU Steemit users risk being banned/sued
@ned I encourage you to read about this situation that is happening in all EU countries and really think about changing the terms of service for Steemit to NOT COMPLY with EU policies. They are voting to censor the internet and empower USA companies like Google/Facebook/Twitter to decide what EU citizens are allowed to post.
I am not sure how aware of this situation you are, but it is very serious as this could see many people banned from Steemit if complying with EU policies.
From the Tech Dirt article
"These proposals will make starting new internet companies effectively impossible -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and the other US giants will be able to negotiate favourable rates and build out the infrastructure to comply with these proposals, but no one else will. The EU's regional tech success stories -- say Seznam.cz, a successful Czech search competitor to Google -- don't have $60-100,000,000 lying around to build out their filters, and lack the leverage to extract favorable linking licenses from news sites.
If Articles 11 and 13 pass, American companies will be in charge of Europe's conversations, deciding which photos and tweets and videos can be seen by the public, and who may speak."
"Article 11 (a.k.a. link tax) would force anyone using snippets of journalistic online content to get a license from the publisher first — essentially outlawing current business models of most aggregators and news apps. This can also possibly threaten the hyperlink and give power to publishers at the cost of public good.
Article 13 (a.k.a. censorship machines) will make platforms responsible for monitoring user behavior to stop copyright infringements, but basically means only huge platforms will have the resources to let users comment or share content. People opposed to the proposal worry that this could lead to broader censorship, threatening free speech via parody, satire, and even protest videos."
Sources:
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/asymmetric-information-war.html
https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/06/20/eu-votes-for-censorship-machines-and-link-tax-what-now/
Shit...I will share this important post. Thanks for the info. I have been folowing the topic.
Believe it or not but this will effect us in the United States.
Censorship is here.
There can be two front-ends for Steemit. One in the countries that don't have censorship and another in the countries that do have censorship. However, this doesn't stop people in the countries with censorship from accessing the blockchain so they can still pull censored material if they want.
The censorship is crazy.
Sux to be European don't it?
They did it to themselves.
The rest of the world will leave them behind.
ya. glad im not in EU
nice place to visit I hear.
Parts of it.
wouldn't want to live there.
Why would that happen? Can you give some reasons on why would an EU citizen be banned from Steemit?
Steemit's TOS and policy is that they will comply with EU laws. EU is passing laws now that make it illegal for you to do many various things. You should take a hard look into it and Steemit's TOS.
They say they will ban people who break their TOS, breaking their TOS includes breaking EU laws(where applicable). Posting screen shots of a news story, posting a crituque of a news story without paying the "link tax"(you have to pay the Main Stream Media to even comment on their content or link to it, YES I am serious), posting something "offensive" which can be a stupid meme that pisses somseone off.
Many many many things can get you banned from Steemit and or fined/thrown in jail for EU new laws. Ifeel for the people of the EU, it is a corrupt entity that has unelected people making decisions for the entire EU. It sucks, don't go to jail!
i almost want to downvote this post because i feel like you should be able to see past this made up problem
Steemit is only a proof of concept. end of story. it was never intended to be the face of the blockchain. the solution to all of your problems is in creating a new interface in which we initially only invite the people over that create the kind of content that we want, so that it will set the stage for the masses that come later
I know that, but most people dont know that. They think Steemit WAS that solution. Most people didn't read TOS so they have no idea my man. This is more of an alert to everyone than anything.