Posted by xyzal 2 days ago
See you next time.
And the proposal has not been worse, it’s more crippled with every attempt. Maybe we can’t stop the problem indefinitely, but we can mitigate the harm. Or maybe we can stop it long enough that the people making these proposals are replaced and we eventually win.
Don’t give up. You don’t have to fight along every one else, but if you’re not actively helping, I humbly ask that you also don’t actively make it worse.
"Bad guys" will always find a way around any attempt to stop them communicating privately. And the rest of the population will be left with governments spying on all of our interactions. The fact that this is even getting this far is absurd.
Obviously monitoring everyone's messages is making things way too easy for authoritarian dictatorships later on, but there does need to be some progress so these groups can't keep acting with complete impunity.
8/27=0.296 (29.6%), and I thought it has to be 35% (65% supporters to pass)
(1) 55% of countries [15 atm] (2) representing 65% of EU population.
If one of the above is not met, a blocking minority (usually) needs >=4 countries to vote against a proposal. Germany voting against CSAR would mean (2) is not met in this case.
Source: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/...
Government is a job that self-selects for people who either want safety (non elected jobs) or power (elected jobs) more than anything else, given it pays far less than the private sector. Both the safety people and the power people want to reduce public freedom and the ability to do things.
The only way we keep these people from this is the threat of voting them out of their jobs. But they are more motivated than we are, so they usually win over time.
Not really, both things need to be done by a law. So it's the same signal and complexity as just rejecting the law when it's proposed
And the second option at least does away with the pretension of permanence people like to use as an excuse to wash their hands of interest in politics
Instead of discussing WHY "owned" mobile phones have a short lifespan and we can't truly do whatever we want with them (be at the hardware/software level) and forced to choose between the apple and google duopoly, we get into these lousy law debates about privacy.
Why doesn't the EU put effort in paving the way for a more open and free tech world when we rely 100% on propietary technology that comes from the other side of the Atlantic?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IP...
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
This is a wet dream for governments.