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Medical apartheid? What’s that referring to?
Presumably they're referring to requirements for vaccinations to attend large public gatherings. I think it's an absurd hyperbole, myself.
In some counties it is much broader than that. Painting it as hyperbole sounds hollow if you are downplaying it yourself.
The UK did it and they're still alive.
[0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319...
Assuming this is correct (I only followed a couple of links, but it would be the EU planning to mandate content scan for CSAM on all e-mail and messaging platforms, after making it legal/optional already to do so earlier this year), I guess this answer the question of why Apple released their tech. While it made little sense on iCloud Photos, they can add the exact same client-side scanning to iMessage and keep it (m…
iMessage is, in practice today, no longer e2e.
Apple knows this and intentionally preserves this backdoor for the FBI:
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medical apartheid? What’s that referring to?
Presumably they're referring to requirements for vaccinations to attend large public gatherings. I think it's an absurd hyperbole, myself.
My observation is that in the name of: a) Covid b) Counterterrorism c) Child abuse almost everything can be presented as justifiable, at least to the mainstream media. The burden of questioning the rulers' decisions remains on us, and the limitations of personal freedom, both digital and physical, set a dangerous precendent to anything that might happen in the future.
It's agendas like these when you realize submitting your country laws to legislation from Brusel was a fatal error.
I think this isn't getting nearly enough traction, especially considering how undemocratic EU's legislative procedures can get. Considering the lack of direct democracy in the European Union, exposure and public protest is the only viable way to oppose this legislature. There's also an ongoing petition against the legislature: https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/preserve-eprivac...
And at least in my corner of EU we vote on who to send to EU parliament. You can vote on whoever you want in the national elections and then vote for the pirate party for the EU seat.
Edit: from your comment history I guess you vote far right, which is usually the part of EU pushing hardest for these measures??