There also was a public feedback period in Aug/Sep and you can read thousands of sad stories about people's livelihood being damaged by this regulation here:
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#News: #HumanRights Watch warns the #EU’s anti‑deforestation law #EUDR leaves #leather out, creating a huge loophole for cattle‑driven #deforestation and #landgrabbing to keep flowing into #Europe Be #Vegan for the animals #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives jurist.org/news/2026/05/rights…
The protests helped! "The European Parliament has decisively backed the suspension of a requirement for small businesses to appoint an agent in every EU country they ship to, to ensure compliance with waste-reduction laws." rapporteur.com/news/meps-back-…
#GoodNews #PPWR #artists #crafters #microentreprise #smallBusiness #microenterprise #EU
Not quite helped enough! As this post[1] on IG explains more, this vote[2] only means negotiations with the council can commence, but there is no other practical outcome yet and several member states (incl. Austria, France, Germany, Spain) are actually against the exemption! This really is outrageous and we urgently need to put pressure on our MEPs in these countries. They're outright killing thousands of SMEs with this legislation!
Albeit a different topic, the FightChatControl website has a tool to find & copy email addresses of all MEPs for your country. Use this to write a letter to your representatives explaining the situation and severity of not supporting an exemption for micro enterprises... fightchatcontrol.eu
[1] instagram.com/eu.mea.hq/p/DeuO…
[2] europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/voti…
#PPWR #SME #SaveMicroEnterprises #EU #Legislation #WriteToYourMEP
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:
“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹
Relevant GitHub issue: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…
¹ snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-intr…
HT @homegrown
#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros
Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...GitHub