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The more people become criminals the harder it becomes to enforce the law. This is especially ironic because criminals that genuinely matter and cause wide-scale harm won't even be impacted by this.
All new laws should be given a trial period where the lawmakers are forced to live with them for 90 days before the public is subjected to them. At any time during that period lawmakers can change their vote.
If we're gonna be undemocratic, can we at least also get have bullet trains and expanded social programs?
Is anyone working on a "No chat control at all, ever law"? If these can be defeated, presumably one of those could become law.
Equally, there is abundant precedent for forbidding interference with old-fashioned postal communications, that seemingly doesn't translate to electronic communications...
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The European Comission is the top decision maker of the EU. The European citizen has zero (0) influence on the members or actions of the EC. No different than the politburo in China.
Apart from the fact it can't make decisions. It can only propose; the decision is made by the EU parliament.
The more people become criminals the harder it becomes to enforce the law. This is especially ironic because criminals that genuinely matter and cause wide-scale harm won't even be impacted by this.
Yeah. That’s really the dumbest part. Criminal will be using systems that don’t follow EU rules
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1 - this is about Chat Control 1.0 2 - The vote was on the "Urgency requirement" > parliamentarians starting their summer break whenever they want will never not be funny Eh. This is the least problematic thing here. Some MEPs might just be on official PTO.
The voting dynamics changing beacause elected representatives can't plan their vacations like any regular work place is pretty silly
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What I don't understand is, what kind of legitimate criminal would not use such techniques? Are bank robbers planning things out on iMessage? If so, presumably they won't be criminals for very long. Therefore these types of initiatives only impact the innocent and inept but still active criminals.
Epstein used Gmail
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You have apparently no idea what an actual dictatorship is
It's mostly a lack of properly descriptive words in the language. I think "totalitarian liberalism" or the "managerial state" is probably closer to what we're talking about here. Power is not concentrated in one individual; responsibility and accountability are diffused so far that it is impossible to find someone who actually can do or change anything. "Rational systems" of business process and rigour serve to remov…
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129546
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