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Somebody coming across this and briefly checking out the context section could think this is just a regular old mass surveillance law, but when you look at the High Level Group advice EU is citing as a key source you’ll see the full image.
The craziest thing is that when a German MEP Patrick Breyer asked the EU to release the names of the people who were a part of the so called High Level Group that wrote this proposal, they replied with a list with all names blacked out. Here is Patrick Breyer’s own blog post on the subject
According to Edri ”The HLG has kept its work sessions closed, by strictly controlling which stakeholders got invited and effectively shutting down civil society participation.”. Very nice.
You can read the full High Level Group proposal here.TL;DR
And much, much more. And this law isn’t aimed towards big companies, all communication service providers are explicitly in scope no matter how small or open source.
A mass surveillance law being written by unknown lobbyists behind closed doors, demanding that the EU should monitor the internet more than Russia, being pushed by the EU commission. Should be the biggest news of the decade, but isn’t.
Also, EU commission (Ursula, Virkkunen, Brunner as the key players) are using the same high level group as a key source in their ProtectEU plan, which is their strategy for 2029 and includes restricting encryption. Politico article on the subject
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Why do you think they cooperate with hardware manufacturers instead of OS producers or infiltrating the FOSS community harder?
I can’t wait for the first fully open source computer.
Yeah, it’s a blatant attempt to establish a draconic police state for the average citizenry, abhorrent shit.
It doesn’t matter if we defeat this one. They’ll just try again and again and again until it sticks.
The way you defeat it, is a constitution that explicitly protect these rights and empowering a court that will strike down laws that violate those rights.
Yeah about that: These laws get passed. They are enacted. People challenge them in court. The court strikes it down after a long time. Another slightly differently worded law with the same content gets passed and enacted. People challenge it in court…
Or well, the Authoritarian scum just ignore the courts.
What is needed is a strong resistance on every level. This needs to be brought to media attention, needs to be protested, the people behind it need to be public ousted, shamed and stripped from all power, the companies behind it need to be boycotted and sabotaged so they go out of business…
Waiting for courts to deal with things does not cut it with authoritarians. They only understand collective power against them.
Maybe laws should require judicial review before they get enacted.
Accepting defeat is the quickest way for that. Humanity dealt with much worse already, and though they seem to be trying to be as bad, the push against them from the common citizen and the more reasonable of their peers in power is making momentum to be lost quickly.
Infection is a natural part of existence and the human organism has to fight against every infection, whether familiar or not. We’ll just to have to take our bodies’ example.
they make us fight and fight and fight until we are haggard and have no more fight in us. i hate them. Having others trying to control the group is natural. Accepting it without fighting back seems unnatural. Even wolf packs have been known to eliminate a mean-spirited leader.
I’ve honestly started to believe that most people don’t have species consciousness (I don’t know how else to put it), in that they don’t see how their individual survival is inextricably linked to the survival (and wellbeing) of the species as a whole.
Most people don’t understand that they’re as much a part of the shit show as anyone else and as such tend to just wait things over while the building burns down around them. It’s frustrating, beyond frustrating even.