So, Articles 11 and 13 have been approved by MEPs. Very bad news for the internet. Unless member states push back, Google News (among others) will shut down across the EU and all kinds of censorship mechanisms will become widespread. Creators and social media will not benefit. Amazing how time and time again those sociopaths in powerful positions, when they see something that works well, they manage to fuck it all up. GDPR also proved to be a disaster for internet in the EU but this will be even worse. And, as always, apparently the MEP's that voted in favor didn't even know what they are really voting on, because the result will just be the total opposite of what they hoped to achieve; - It will be the end of what was left of trust in main-stream media or social networks. - The Onion Router network will improve, expand in functionality, gain A LOT of traction and new users. - We will probably see new separate decentralized root-DNS appear, next to separate decentralized domain name registration systems, and secure tunneling inventions will explode. Let's see how they like that. - Mozilla Firefox will probably end up being the only…

Fun fact; Blockchain technology doesn't require any mining AT ALL, no cracking hashes, no crunching of numbers. Another fun fact: A good reliable functional cryptocurrency does not require mining AT ALL. It's an insane idea brought forward by virtual value backed by nothing (about the same as the one behind the dollar and euro today), implying that one has to do 'something special' in order to create new currency. A so-called 'proof of work' consensus algorithm. Completely unneeded. Mining is a deplorable wasteful mechanism by which only retards think they 'create value'. Mathematical and cryptography advancements have long surpassed any requirement of having to crunch numbers in order to 'create' new virtual currency. Funniest fact: Bitcoin creation ends when a set amount of them has been created by mining, thereby proving how useless the concept of wasting energy, time and resources has been all along. Its value doesn't just disappear after they've all been mined! Even bitcoin's core mining software developer stated that mining wasn't needed in order for BTC to function back in 2009. It was a silly fun idea, made up solely to make it look like you needed to do something in order to get rewarded that…