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Or English as the officially recognised global language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With Britain leaving the EU there is sadly a lot less reason for English to be the official language.
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Or English as the officially recognised global language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With Britain leaving the EU there is sadly a lot less reason for English to be the official language.
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This is why we need Esperanto.
We already have a common language that's widely known across Europe (English), it just doesn't have the reach that the native language does. Some countries are also really self centered in terms of news, etc. Here in Spain, for example, most national news deal mostly with corruption scandals, political issues in Catalonia, sports, and little else. Geopolitical and/or European issues are given surprisingly little time…
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I would love to be cut off from Facebook. Please do it now.
What about other people that like the service? Why don't you stop using it yourself and instead try to forcibly impose your personal ideals on others?
Good talk from a few weeks ago: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
(that's just android, but they do just as much web tracking through their pixel for example).
OK. So I'd like to help make some noise surrounding this issue. Who should I email for best impact?
In a weird way, this might be EU's strategy to finally deal significant damage to Google and Facebook, as this law will encourage development of alternatives on decentralized peer-to-peer technologies. However, I'm not sure if EU politicians are that smart...
In many ways the EU is a functioning technocracy, and if you ever read through the actual EU documents it shows. They are almost always sound, they are also massively bureaucratic and around 90% longer than necessary, but I’ve never read through something that wasn’t sound.
Disclaimer: I haven’t read up on article 13, but I do read (and sit through) a good deal of EU standards and proposals for EU wide Enterprise Architectural principles, and they are never thwarted by politics.
This wil change nothing that is not already in effect for most sites. Try to upload a movie to Youtube, it will be removed. But only when the owner/author complains or some automatic filter is triggered. There is also too much content to check and enforce it all.
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With Britain leaving the EU there is sadly a lot less reason for English to be the official language.
Surely the case for English as a working language is now stronger. Previously it could have been seen as unfair to use one member state's language over another...
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Or English as the officially recognised global language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With Britain leaving the EU there is sadly a lot less reason for English to be the official language.
It is also still the only language that is taught as a foreign language in close to all primary and secondary schools in the Union. It's the most spoken language in the Union. It's relatively easy to learn as a foreign language. It's also the de facto language of international trade, of science, of culture and of international diplomacy (sorry France).
I'm worried about influencing outcomes in the EU due to language barriers, especially on boring and "unsexy" issues like Internet regulation. It'd be important for the EU to be able to vote for representatives regardless of your primary jurisdiction. Even if I manage to convince most of the representatives from my region, they will be outvoted by the French who had a big hand in passing the proposal forward the last…
Now, I don't know where the majority stands on this issue but being outvoted by the majority is called democracy. The French, even assuming French representatives in the EU are all on the same side, cannot force EU legislation. Any legislation has majority support (including at member states' governments level).