Re:German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
by graderjs on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:28AM
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Honestly sort of depressing how everything follows US policy: NDAA contained whistleblower-protection language--and we have to be proud of it. Couldn't other "western liberal democracies" just initiate their own policy initiatives--sounds like I'm denigrating US--I'm not--but couldn't other countries initiate their own first, why have to wait and play second fiddle? Always like this. US passes some law, then you see, like the dominoes fall elsewhere--depressing as it gives the impression they were too scared to pass before US...ugh.
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Re:German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
by Darge on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:46PM
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Can you provide more examples of the EU following US?
I think there are plenty of examples of the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
Re:German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
by graderjs on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:55PM
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It's a feeling built up over years, from a gestalt experience... I wasn't keeping notes. I don't know...some places I might look to research that further are: copyright law / DMCA, encryption law and export regulation, COVID policies, country / company blacklists, crypto law -- but without finding all the little moments in my past where I saw such and such a news happen in USA, then later on such and such similar legislation / policy happen in EU, in East Asian democracies, in Indo Pacific...I couldn't provide you who is exactly on that list for sure. Just a feeling it's there tho. I'm sure it seems probably not very convincing to you...that's OK, you have your own experience and memory. This is mine.
Thanks for the link. Interesting. Cross-pollination maybe? :) Have a good one!