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RE: Reminder: Steem absolutely and completely violates GDPR and European privacy laws
The problem is not solved as the infringing data is still held in the Steem blockchain. Privacy is a human right, there's no distinction between "private" data and "public" data, and like all human rights privacy is timeless. I.e. by foregoing your privacy today doesn't mean you don't have the right to privacy in the future.
I understand that you see the above distinction, but the law is the law. If you don't like the law, I would recommend you protest in appropriate forum.
Ah, the distinction was not clear, and both you and @carlgnash assume I should know that if Steemit removes content, they don't do so by hardforking and removing the infringing data from the blockchain.
I would have assumed this was necessary to satisfy DMCA.
But, a mechanism does exist to remove data from the blockchain.
It's called a hardfork.
That's the whole point of my initial rant. (As well as previous rants over the last two years) There needs to be a defined, transparent system implemented that responds to DMCA, GDPR etc. Something like witnesses review and approve amendments, and it leads to thousands of microforks. But the system has to be robust enough so everyone's on the right chain at all times etc.
(I'm not a developer - I'm sure they will come up with a better solution.)