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You often have to enter your email address twice and click a confirmation link to sign up to even the most straightforward mailing lists. But to vote on legisl

You often have to enter your email address twice and click a confirmation link to sign up to even the most straightforward mailing lists. But to vote on legislation affecting literally hundreds of millions of people for generations, just hit a button and there's no going back.

tialaramex 8y ago
But there /is/ always going back. That's the thing. They can decide tomorrow, or next week, or next year that actually Article 13 is a bad idea and revoke it. There are reasons to support a different mechanism for voting, but the idea that this is irrevocable and so needs safeguards to prevent mistakes is not one.
- benmmurphy 8y ago
  the EU parliament can't actually trigger a vote by themselves. I think it requires the EU commission to introduce the legislation. so if parliament believes it made a mistake and the commission won't support them then there is no going back. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and-procedures/legislative-powers http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and... 'A Member of the European Parliament, working in one of the parliamentary committees, draws up a report on a proposal for a ‘legislative text’ presented by the European Commission, the only institution empowered to initiate legislation.' I guess in a way the EU commission has a similar Veto power that the US president has except it possible for the legislature in the US to override the President's Veto power.