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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
The difference is that now they're getting fined and being given legally-binding orders to stop.
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Indeed, this case was started on the day the GDPR came in to force .
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>will this mean retroactively resetting ALL users to no? Yes, because Meta does not have explicit, informed consent from existing users.
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They have also been ordered to stop doing what they're doing, and will face additional sanctions if they don't. When calculating fines under the GDPR the supervisory authorities have to take in to account whether the violation w
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The default position is that subtitles are a verbatim transcription of what was actually said , so there's no need for "[sic]".
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>Sure, but the closed captioning is still extremely good. The typists use chorded keyboards for speed and yes they occasionally make mistakes but everything is generally quite clear and accurate. Live subtitling (on the BBC at least) is
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
I misread NIH as NIF for a second there and was very confused as to why chimps were researching nuclear fusion.
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
No, they're not. The #FediBlock hashtag can be used by anyone - it's literally just a hashtag - and it's up to folks (mainly admins) monitoring that hashtag to investigate and (if it appears to be necessary) take action. Ther
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>It's causing a lot of dont-talk-to-your-neighbor-because-you-might-break-privacy-laws issues Well that's explicitly out of scope of the GDPR, so it shouldn't cause those issues. Article 2(2): >This Regulation does not
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Because the EU, and specifically the Court of Justice in this instance, believes in having a strong human rights framework where the right to privacy is vital.
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Sort of, in that the court's role is to be the authoritative interpreter of EU law, and EU law crosses national borders by definition. But all domestic law in EU member states must comply with EU law, so the court can rule on domestic
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The Digital Covenant: Non-Centralized Platform Governance on Mastodon(hcommons.org)
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The German government also run their own instance: https://social.bund.de
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
> So you're arguing that lots of people use Mastodon? It has 1 million active users so... yeah, lots of people use Mastodon.
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> When you move because you don't like the instance anymore, how do all of your connections follow you? You use the built-in[0] migration feature. Create an account on your new instance, point it at your old one. Then point your old
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Most people don't (and won't) run their own instances, either because they lack the skills or resources (including time).
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I've run my own single-user instance since 2018 - the biggest downside is discoverability and community. Discoverability: With other users on the instance the federated timeline is populated by posts from users that others on your inst
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Your first point is wrong, you definitely can move your account to a new instance and take your followers with you.
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AFAIK it's geographically limited... I think that only US users have input to Birdwatch. It's certainly not in the UK.
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The Licensing of the Press Act 1662, entitled "An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses",[0] gave the Statio
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
>Shakespeare had no lawyers, and that's kinda why we ended up with this system. lol, no. Copyright was invented primarily as a censorship tool, and secondly to enrich publishers rather than authors.
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Sort of, but it's still the ePD, really. The ePD was always there, but largely ignored by both companies and regulators. What happened when the GDPR came in was twofold: 1. Everyone became acutely aware of data protection legislation,
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No, it is just client storage. The law is explicitly only about client storage: >Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the termin
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
You're only talking about the GDPR. But the cookie banners aren't there because of the GDPR, they're there because of the ePrivacy Directive. It's this directive (which pre-dates the GDPR) that makes it illegal to store
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>Weird decision. I am in Germany and no one cares about Covid anymore. Maybe that's part of the problem...
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BBC R&D: The secret laboratory(bbc.com)
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by M2Ys4U 4y ago
Yeah, I've had this (very annoying) prompt when logged in for a long time now
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No. But it would be less bad.
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They have been repeatedly and viciously harassed by those who believed Jones' lies. So, yeah, besmirching their reputation is worth a billion.
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Because as we all know there is only one constitution in the whole world, and what it says holds true about everything everywhere for all time...

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