(1) massive retaliation, i.e. everyone connected with it is fired and can never work for EU again
(2) a Constitutional amendment, forcing a supermajority referendum result for any such laws in the future.
(1) unlikely. But imagine that the EC put out a proposal mandating a swastika underneath the EU flag, everywhere. Most likely those people would all be blacklisted permanently. So it's not inconceivable.
(2) probably doesn't exist in the EU, but maybe it's in a bylaw somewhere.
Since you flagged the other comment, let's try again.
You are critiquing his tone and pooh-pooh'ing his concerns. As I said above, this is only the opening shot in the war. In a year or two, they'll be back with a somewhat smaller, less ambitious plan, removing the parts that were most objectionable while keeping the spirit. Repeat, until the opposition is too worn down to be effective.
As for "this abhorrent thing is that the European commission is doing" - there are plenty of other comments here explaining what's abhorrent.
Exactly, and this is why the people in the thread saying, "don't worry, it won't pass" are not serious.
In a year or two, they'll raise it again, except then they'll know what the opposition thinks and what arguments resonated with the public, so they'll be smarter.
"They can't bring it up again for five years!" -- also not serious. They can resurrect the least controversial parts and call it something else.
The only answer is to fire every single person associated with this, such that they can never work for the EU in any guise, ever again. I'm not optimistic about that happening.
35+ years ago, the ancestors of these people tried to force OSI on the world. The Feds in the US even "mandated" it with GOSIP.
While there were giant Interop conferences in the 80's and early 90's for TCP, where every vendor had to demonstrate they could interoperate with everyone else, OSI never managed anything remotely close, because it was too complicated. Like the EC's structure.
Instead, the tech community just proceeded with TCP and the Internet suite of protocols. Even when forced to buy "OSI-compliant" equipment, they actually ran TCP on their networks. Eventually OSI just died. Some vestiges survived, like LDAP and the notion of the "seven-layer model" (mainly 1-4).
It's deeply, deeply ironic that, now that the Internet is global, the Eurocrats are back trying to take it over.
Bureaucracy is certainly not new, as WalterBright and others have observed.
When Xerox was first trying to commercialize PARC inventions, it was estimated that IBM's bureaucracy was so bad that it would take them nine months to ship an empty box.
They had something like a near-death experience under Ballmer. Nadella brought them back from it. For a long time, people really did give them up for dead.
Funny to read this today. Last night I got sick of TV, sick of all the interwebs' distractions, and just sat there with eyes closed, letting my mind wander.
Finally I remembered I wanted to read Fathers and Sons (Turgenev). Here's a great question: why am I here and not reading that? BRB.
What's the problem with [1]? Well, it says they're swimming in money, and don't need your $2 donation to keep giving your free information.
Most of the arguments, including yours, are 100% qualitative. "They're a good site, so give them money." Or "other charities also spend money on advertising."
We should instead be quantitative : "Yes, you are a worthy cause, but you have plenty now. Other charities are more deserving."
I also have a smart TV, but the Roku has a lot of apps that the TV doesn't.