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今年2月14日，每个人都能体验到我们在过去一年不断研发的产品和项目。你体验测试版的时候就会看到我们这个前沿团队不断提升的创造力。
同时，公司内部的成员还关注着一些对大家可能不明显的事情。想让Voice完成测试版，然后继续发展下去，我们需要来自公司内部各个部门的合作，包括营销、金融、人力、法务和网络安全部。这里，我们想和你分享以下，我们想让Voice成功上架，我们需要解决的一些法律和法规上的挑战和我们取得的成功。理解政策环境并在这个环境中运行是我们的一大挑战，这个挑战对企业其它部分都有影响：产品特点、发布、用户体验、内容、参与条件、你的安全，但反过来，这些影响也让这个挑战更加艰巨。
想要启动任何新项目都需要准备好无数的内部和外部的合作伙伴。我们也确实需要找到数个第三方供货商和合作伙伴来实现所有经典的软件和服务——从托管基础架构到安全工具到图形美工。要把Voice带到你面前同时还要满足我们自我设定的目标，我们签订并履行了几十份合约（并且还在继续）。随着我们扩展到更多国家、在产品中添加更多功能，法律协议的数量只会增加。对这么复杂的协议进行协商和管理就需要大量的精力。
更大的挑战是如何让Voice成为真正的国际产品，而这又是必然的发展。这就要求我们，不管Voice要在哪里上线，我们必须遵守当地法律法规。目前我们已经研究过美洲、欧洲、亚洲和非洲的主要市场。我们的法务团队和我们的产品团队合作，现在法务们已经采取措施，在必要的时候限制一定功能，但同时也为产品未来奠定了基础，这样，当新的市场开放的时候，我们才能迅速进入该市场。
这其中的关键是我们作为组织的速度和灵活度。服务客户我们必须敏捷，但此外，我们对于不受我们控制的又不断变化的外部因素也要保持反应迅速。正如你们很多人知道的，Voice——社交媒体、区块链、金融服务——可以应用的监管环境在全球范围内也在迅速但不平衡地变化。这些规则和标准对我们制定Voice的全球推广、测试轮和之后你能享有的功能都有巨大的影响。
在测试轮和未来的规划中，我们都打算花大力气确保Voice能够完全符合美国证券法，除了和美国证券交易委员会（SEC）打交道，我们还设立了政策和系统来已符合OFAC（海外资产办公室）和AML（反洗钱）标准。测试轮之后，我们还会为Voice加入新的功能和功用，届时，我们会要求在美国各大洲都持执照。我们很努力地保证都能获得这些执照。此外，随着Voice走向全球，我们也会遇到世界各地各种各样的监管要求。由于我们努力想让每个人获得相同的服务，满足这些要求就更加困难了。当我们在媒体世界开辟新道路的时候，我们获得了世界各地最聪明的人和从业者的支持，单单在法律方面就已经超过100位了。
我们的任务是遵守法律，但是也要忠于我们的主要标准——Voice必须是一个可以公开、真诚交流观点的平台。
Voice是一个社交媒体平台，这就意味着我们也会遇到内容审查问题，而这个问题往往是很棘手的。对于这个法律问题，律师和产品经理都有话可说，也有很多重要的点要考虑。似乎每天，在世界上某些地方，都会通过或提起新的法律要求社交媒体平台进行内容审核。我们在不断跟进这些发展，也知道我们马上就要面对它们。我们的任务是遵守法律，但也要忠于我们的主要原则——Voice必须是一个可以公开、真诚交流观点的地方。用们对Voice用户会进行身份验证，希望能因此减少内容审查的程度。同时，我们希望我们主要关注严格验证用户身份，而不对用户产生过大的负担。
也因此，我们自然会竭尽我们所能保证Voice满足法律对于个人信息保护的所有要求。这要求我们要设立数据保护官、大量数据和隐私政策、政策检查和完善的网络安全措施。
这肯定很麻烦也耗费很多时间，但是履行法律义务对我们这个组织是必要的，且正如上文所说，不管是区块链还是社交媒体法律界还不够成熟——可能还有数年才能达到成熟。那么，在这个瞬息万变的环境下正确地判断如何符合法律要求，这就要求我们不断和组织内部领导协调、向外部的法律顾问咨询、以及有时候，需要和监管机构直接讨论。
以上就是我们法律和法规团队最近在做的一些（许多）事情，但是，对比整个Block.one为了让我们对Voice的愿景变为现实而付出的努力，我们做的只是一小部分而已。我们非常感谢所有幕后加班加点工作的人员所付出的努力。我们也很开心能和你分享我们和你一起在创造的作品。
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Come the 14th of February, everyone will be able to experience the product and engineering work that we’ve been earnestly completing over the past year. As you participate in Beta, you will see the evolving creativity of our bleeding edge engineering team.
At the same time, many of us in the company have been working very hard on matters that may be less obvious to anyone following the Voice story. Getting Voice to Beta and beyond requires a collective effort from our people across the company, including Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal and Cybersecurity. In particular, we wanted to share with you some of the challenges and critical successes of our Legal & Compliance efforts needed to launch Voice successfully. The challenges of understanding and navigating the regulatory environment are exacerbated by the impact it has on the rest of the business: product features, rollout, user experience, content, terms of engagement, your security.
Launching any new venture involves putting in place numerous internal and external partnerships. We have needed to find multiple third-party providers and partners for all the typical software and services – from hosting infrastructure, to security tools, to graphic artists. To bring Voice to you and live up to the standards we’ve set for ourselves, we’ve had to put in place and maintain dozens of contracts (and counting). The volume of legal agreements will only increase as we launch in more countries and build additional functionality into the product. Negotiating and managing this complexity requires a significant effort.
Even more challenging is enabling Voice to be the truly global product it will inevitably be. This scope requires that we achieve legal compliance wherever we intend to make Voice available. We’ve already looked closely at all our key markets across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Working closely with our product team, our legal team has taken steps to limit functionality where needed, but to also futureproof the platform so that we can quickly grant access to new territories as they become available to us.
Key to our success will be our speed and agility as an organization. In addition to moving nimbly to serve our users, we must react to dynamic external forces outside of our control. As many of you know, the regulatory environments applicable to Voice – social media, blockchain and financial services – are all evolving quickly and unevenly around the world. These rules and standards also have a big impact on driving the timetable for Voice’s international rollout and what features you can enjoy during the Beta phase and subsequently.
For Beta and in our future planning, we’ve gone to great lengths to ensure that the Voice token will be fully compliant with US securities law. In addition to engaging with the SEC, we have built policies and systems to comply with OFAC and AML requirements. As we add functionality and utility to Voice tokens post-Beta, we’re going to require licenses in most US states individually. We have been working hard on securing these licenses. Also, with the internationalization of Voice, we will have to meet various regulatory requirements in countries across the world, which is especially challenging when we want to offer a uniform experience to everyone. As we blaze a new trail through the media world, we have enlisted the support of some of the best minds and practitioners in the world, totaling over 100 legal professionals alone.
Our task is to follow the law, but still stay true to our guiding principle – Voice must be a place for an open and authentic exchange of ideas.
Voice being a social media platform means we’re also grappling with the often-thorny question of content moderation. It’s a legal topic where both the lawyers and the product champions have a lot to say and there are many valid points to consider. It seems that every day, somewhere in the world, there is a new law passed or proposed that is intended to dictate how social media platforms moderate content. We’re keeping abreast of all these developments, knowing that we have to face them head-on. Our task is to follow the law, but still stay true to our guiding principle – Voice must be a place for an open and authentic exchange of ideas. With verified identity for Voice users, we hope to require far less content moderation than other platforms. Instead, we hope to focus our efforts to ensure the rigor of our identity checks whilst not overly burdening our users.
It should also come as no surprise that we have to make sure Voice meets all of the legal requirements relating to protection of personal data. This responsibility requires putting in place things like data protection officers, a raft of data and privacy policies, compliance checks and extensive cybersecurity measures.
While it can be challenging and time consuming, meeting our legal obligations is essential to us as an organization and, as noted above, both the blockchain and social media legal worlds are still maturing – and will be for years to come. Making the right judgments about how to comply with rules that are in a state of flux requires constant engagement with leaders across our organization, regular advice from our external legal advisors and, sometimes, direct discussion with regulators.
So that’s a little (or a lot) about what our Legal & Compliance team have been up to, but it’s just a small piece of the efforts being put in by people across Block.one to enable our vision for Voice to come to fruition. We’re extremely grateful to all the people working behind the scenes and around the clock to make this all possible. We are very excited to share what we’ve built with you.
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