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[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Finland will become euro skeptic if the EU Commission keeps pushing for surveillance policies such as chat control, digital id, car driver cameras and age verification.

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not only the EU Commission. The Council (member States' PMs) actively support all these.

[โ€“] loutr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, "Europe" is a convenient scapegoat but this bill would have been buried long ago if the member countries were against it.