<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Falkvinge</author><text>(also, I am no longer the party leader of the PPSE; I led the party through its first five years and the election where we put our first people in the Europarl. Today, my focus is international)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Falkvinge</author><text>Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage.&lt;p&gt;So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine - where something will come out the other end.&lt;p&gt;Cheers,
Rick</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is a proposal, for legislation to be drafted, backed by the Pirate Party. Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Much less has happened than this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>The article opens by asserting that the EU has &quot;ordered new regulation to regulate&quot;. I took this to mean regulation had been passed. Instead, this is analogous to the U.S. House of Representatives passing a motion to send an issue to committee (where legislation is subsequently drafted). Not insignificant, but nothing that will change too much on the ground (yet).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Falkvinge</author><text>Well, the proposal has been adopted as a report today. The Parliament has formally requested legislation to be drafted - it has gone beyond the proposal stage.&lt;p&gt;So this has entered the famous _wurstmaschine_ - the legislative sausage machine - where something will come out the other end.&lt;p&gt;Cheers,
Rick</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is a proposal, for legislation to be drafted, backed by the Pirate Party. Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. Much less has happened than this article implies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation</title><url>http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy+%28Falkvinge+on+Infopolicy%29</url><text></text></story>