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geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/1854600

I'm not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted.

Sweden and Poland both passed their respective thresholds. That brings us to 3 out of 7 countries where we need to pass the threshold. We are also past 25% of the one million signatures needed continent-wide.

Thank you to everyone who already signed.

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[โ€“] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the clairifcation on the EU ballot initiative thing, that clears that up pretty well. The US sorta just threw the baby out with the bathwater in terms of departmental regulation but thats an entirely other can of worms.

Your second point about DDOSing, Thor comes from a cyber security background and the legality isnt as much of a factor, nor is he stating stating that this would make it legal. Security people have to treat it like "defense against the dark arts", if its possible to do someone will, therefore you have to be able to do it too to prevent it. He is stating that actors would DDOS things because they can, and potentially do so smartly to secretly ruin others enterprises by abusing the regulations if the get made poorly.

But your point clears that up a bit, the initiative has to be vague by design so that lawmakers/regulators can do their job should it pass its initial poll. I think Thor also has a point in that it if the final rulings are made poorly it opens the industry up to abuse. (see amazons patent issues as an example of companies and agencies not thinking things through)

[โ€“] HATEFISH@midwest.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

Thor isn't as much of an authority as he preaches. There is very little at risk from a cybersec pov that wouldn't already be at risk weather it's explicitly given to users or kept within the game company.

He's just another grifter that doesn't want his game as a service to be impacted.

https://medium.com/illumination-gaming/ludwig-thor-team-up-to-launch-offbrand-games-42ee230d7cb1

Otherwise his Dev credits is what, an undertale clone in the works for 7 yeas that uses steam achievements to gate progression and whatever he was doing at blizzard? Nothing about this dude makes me think he has the consumer in mind ever and I'm bummed he ended up with the name pirate software.