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What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

The US legal system is precedent based. Is EU law also precedent based? I don't think so. In other words, while still being a precedent, this ruling doesn't have quite the same power as it would have in a predent-based legal system.