Censorship in Germany for platforms with 2+million users, how would this affect Steemit?

in steemit •  7 years ago 

This video is interesting regarding the censorship rules in Germany with fines of up to 60 Million USD if free speech is not censored in 24h.

Steemit Inc is not a german company and has nothing to do with Germany. Could they be forced to open censorship centers like Facebook with 1400 employees in Germany (and growing)?

Steemit could hide comments and posts, but they still would reside on the blockchain... Is this an issue for Steemit Inc, or can they just ignore it?

We are still far away from 2 million users. Also it is not clear how they would convert number of accounts to users? What if Steemit has 2,000,000 accounts some day: can they just say it is only 200,000 users as the rest are really 10 backup accounts for each user??

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Is there no right to free speech in germany.

Free speech was completely abolished with the new law... Now there is no more right to free speech...

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It just amazes me how there is still censorship in a few parts of the world. I am so grateful to live in a place where I can say whatever the hell I want to on steemit and I won't be jailed for it.

Which country do you live in if I may ask? I think really free speech is not allowed anywhere nowadays.

This may be serious issue for your country .
steem is decentralize and nobody can close our account or nobody can remove our post unless someone flag it.

Not that it's my country, it's after China the first country in the western world where you can go to jail for saying your opinion if it is not mainstream. The justice minister said that someone went to jail for 2 and a half years for a post on facebook... and I do not know if Steemit would have to reject connections from Germany in order to not be liable with some Free Trade Agreement between Europe and the US regarding free speech fines on the internet...

This is very serious matter....steemit will not give any information about user but they can track you through ip address.....steemit gives us opportunity to remain anonymous..,,,but i think its better to stay away from these matters..

I think It is impossible for each user to hold 10 backup accounts , friend.

That was just an example to show that we cannot be sure if we have reached the 2 Million User threshold... it is not a 2 million accounts threshold... Could b that we have 200,000 users if we already have 1 million accounts... who knows?

yeah my friend , I see .
I agree with you , thank .

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Oh! Censorship in Germany for platforms with 2+million users :O
Thanks for the update and good news.
This is very impotent information and useful.
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Wow! This is informative post.you made me know what is happening in germany right now.am happy to be informed.

thank's to share us...i feel confused about it...
can be happened something....
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This is an awesome video.
Many information are available there.great post
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on decentralized platform only ignore is the option left

thanks for info

This sounds like the beginning of the end for the EU's power and hegemony.

Who would they sue? The person who made the contribution or the founders? I think without a central company to sure we can ignore this one for now.

well im sort of confused now..anyway thanks for the news sir..upvoted and resteemed :)

@mexbit, Actually brilliant topic discussion. I can't believe why Censorship in Germany for steemit platforms. Germany peoples had coverage steemit blockchain. After this censorship automatically disconnect their accounts. But I cannot accept this situation. Why hold their human rights? In many ways it is a breach of freedom of speech rights, not just for Germans, but for many other countries. Germany in general doesn’t have a great freedom of speech past and their laws today reflect that as well. We have only will see what to do next.
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This might not affect today but it will do later for sure thanks for sharing the video

60 Million USD worth of fine now this is insane where is the freedom

yeah the number is yet to be achieved but these are the things that as a community we should look first into it

if we think like that we can't grow i think this is not a new problem

kind of very difficult to reach that mark as they are not the active ones we need to first solve that thing

steemit unstoppable. you got the point. this is not a social media platform at all. this is something much more powerful than it. nice post & valuable video for all of us @mexbit

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@mexbit - Sir I don't think no one can block this decentralized social media platform... But we should aware about what will come next... Nice update Sir...

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it would be a tough game then to play in countries where restriction is strict thanks for sharing

thanks for sharing the video it was nice
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