'It is always important to be vigilant about the imputations you make when making posts that may impact someone's reputation. Additionally, malice will undo the availability of most defences and open the door to an increased damages award.

While the outcome of each defamation case will turn on its own particular facts, baseless attacks against professionals who rely upon their reputations for their livelihood are likely to give rise to a sizeable award of damages. Where the attack lacks bona fides, is improper, scandalous or excessive in its attack, then one can expect the statutory cap on damages to be lifted by an award of aggravated damages.

Additionally, if you are the administrator of a public social media account that others can post to, you need to be aware that you can also be held liable as a publisher of defamatory comments posted by members of the public who you give access to. Vigilance is required to monitor and moderate such accounts in order to limit the risk of the original publisher's liability for defamation being visited upon you – particularly if you may be seen as a better defendant if you have deeper pockets than the original publisher.' https://www.claytonutz.com/knowledge/2021/september/how-to-lose-450-000-in-four-posts-internet-trolls-beware #defamation #auslaw #intermediaries #socialmedia

@chriscorrigan There's still a difference between control of an agreed-upon process and suppression of topics.

Noticed already years ago attacks on #OpenSpace, especially on the #LawOfMobility, along the lines of we can't allow people to choose what matters to them, when "in fact" they "need" to talk about something else.

Trash-TV-style, constrained "discussion" formats followed: #intermediaries "presenting" summarized ideas of a group; having to "listen" to "criticism" and "reporting" back

RT @UASNL_EU
#SAVETHEDATE: UASNL annual event
Partners for SMEs: #Intermediaries in regional innovation ecosystems
24 May 10:30-12:30
@HNPbrussel, Rue de Trèves 59
With knowledge institutions, public and private stakeholders, we will explore how the EU can support #SMEs most effectively.

"Who is original? Everything that we are doing, everything that we think, exists already, and we are only intermediaries, that's all, who make use of what is in the air."
(Henry Miller)

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate"
(F.R. de Chateaubriand)

"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again".
(Goethe)

#originality #intermediaries #thought

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Takes Steps to Allow Crypto Trading - Israel’s public stock exchange is suggesting regulatory amendments that would perm... - https://news.bitcoin.com/tel-aviv-stock-exchange-takes-steps-to-allow-crypto-trading/ #cryptocurrencies #serviceproviders #cryptocurrency #intermediaries #consultations #cryptotraders #cryptotrading #digitalassets #stockexchange #cryptoassets #regulations #regulation #proposals #exchange #brokers #clients #israeli #telaviv #crypto

"We observe a shift from a world dominated by expert critics to one where these traditional intermediaries sit alongside newer forms, such as media rankings and ratings, as well as online review aggregators. As a result of this proliferation, producers are often subject to simultaneous public evaluation by multiple intermediaries."

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/annals.2021.0025

#sociology #evaluation #quantification #intermediaries

The #cryptocurrency industry is suffering its own “ #Lehman moment ” of sliding #asset prices and a daisy chain of #failures in #overleveraged and often poorly managed market #intermediaries, chart @FT https://cutt.ly/K2owCk0

ECB to Decide Whether to Issue Digital Euro in 2023 - The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a new report on the progress of its ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/ecb-to-decide-whether-to-issue-digital-euro-in-2023/ #europeancentralbank #investigationphase #serviceproviders #digitalcurrency #intermediaries #distribution #centralbank #digitaleuro #eurosystem #eurozone #payments #progress #services #finance #project #wallets #report #users #cbdc #euro #ecb

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#THE_MERGE | #DARK_COMPANIES | #MONEY_LAUNDERING AT ITS #FINEST!

Known as the #Howey_test, it examines whether investors expect to earn a #return from the #work of #THIRD (#ILLEGAL INSIDE TRADERS) #PARTIES. #DARK_COMPANIES | #DIRTY_MONEY aka MONEY LAUNDERING)

#Ether’s New ‘#Staking’ Model Could Draw #SEC #Attention

Known as the #Howey_test, it examines whether investors expect to earn a #return from the #work of third (#ILLEGAL) #parties. #DARK_COMPANIES | aka MONEY LAUNDERING)

#Ether’s New ‘#Staking’ Model Could Draw #SEC #Attention
SEC chairman says system used by ether following #software_update could trigger securities laws

WASHINGTON—Ethereum’s big software update on Thursday may have turned the second-largest cryptocurrency into a security in the eyes of a top U.S. regulator.

#Securities and #Exchange #Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Thursday that #cryptocurrencies and #intermediaries that allow #holders to “#stake” their coins might pass a key #test used by #courts to #determine whether an #asset is a #security.

“From the coin’s perspective…that’s another indicia that under the Howey test, the investing public is anticipating profits based on the efforts of others,” Mr. Gensler told reporters after a congressional hearing. He said he wasn’t referring to any specific cryptocurrency.

Issuers of securities—a category of assets that includes stocks and bonds—are required to file extensive disclosures with the SEC under laws passed in the 1930s. Exchanges and brokers that facilitate the trading of securities must comply with strict rules designed to protect investors from conflicts of interest. Cryptocurrency issuers and trading platforms face strict liabilities if they sell any assets that are deemed to be securities by the SEC or courts.

Staking is one of two ways in which cryptocurrency networks verify transactions. Used by some of the largest cryptocurrencies—including Solana, Cardano and, as of this week, ether—it allows investors to lock up their tokens for a specified amount of time to receive a return.

If an intermediary such as a crypto exchange offers staking services to its customers, Mr. Gensler said, it “looks very similar—with some changes of labeling—to lending.” The SEC has repeatedly signaled over the past year that firms offering crypto-lending products need to register with the agency and in February forced BlockFi Lending to pay $100 million for failing to do so.

Competition for jurisdiction over crypto is heating up among federal agencies and the congressional committees they answer to. As the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, held a hearing Thursday to vet a crypto bill, the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the SEC, held a simultaneous hearing for members to question Mr. Gensler.

The crypto bill proposed by leaders of the agriculture group last month would specifically designate bitcoin and ether as digital commodities rather than securities. Under current law, such assets have no federal regulator. The bill would grant the CFTC, which oversees derivatives markets, authority to regulate digital commodities.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethers-new-staking-model-could-draw-sec-attention-11663266224

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Buenos Aires Might Implement Blockchain Systems to Make Social Aid Payments

https://news.bitcoin.com/buenos-aires-might-implement-blockchain-systems-to-make-social-aid-payments/

#intermediaries #statecontracts #BuenosAires #Blockchain #darionieto #Regulation #socialaids #Argentina #Ethereum #Payments #Taxes #News