I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.
It's their job and goal in life to hurt the population
They can literally just sit there and it would be better…
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#12"Fun" Fact: it's currently the European championships in football (soccer) in Europe (probably the biggest event of the year), so it's the perfect opportunity to sneak this through without too many people noticing.
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#13I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.
Absolutely. It only works because they claim it's for the protection of children.
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#14"Fun" Fact: it's currently the European championships in football (soccer) in Europe (probably the biggest event of the year), so it's the perfect opportunity to sneak this through without too many people noticing.
Also, the parliament is still 'new'… perfect time to push something like this through before the dust settles
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#15I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.
Absolutely. It only works because they claim it's for the protection of children.
They ride the wave and find always some excuse. It was fighting the terrorists until a few years ago, now it's children again. Next year could be to help the climate or protect lbtgqi++ rights.
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#16There must be something toxic in the water in Brussels.
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#17Already being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993
this has more weight: threema is the biggest "alternative" (after whatsapp and telegram) chat app among my peers. There's a sizable non-tech but pro-privacy part of the population that exclusively uses threema. This will be the first time they ever hear of this.
Threema being paid up front makes it harder to adopt for average uses. Signal is great option and wish more would use it.
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#18I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.
Almost nothing is. Local politicians fail upwards to the EU (at least in Germany) or some private job, if they fail at all. Most of the time, you can do what you want, and the voters don’t care.
Same in Spain.
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#19Statists pave the road to tyranny with their good intentions.