Peter Thiel and a puppet.
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Why not make it a felony to propose laws that are ruled to be "obviously unconstitutional"? A citizen can go to jail for even trying to break a regular law, so it seems reasonable to do the same for politicians who try to break one of the foundational laws
I propose this law:
Ban politicians from trying to do this shit AND strengthen privacy laws and throttle data collection. Allow anonymous SIMs and phone calling. You might ask 'but what about drug dealers and terrorists?" Trust me, they've been able to handle them before without any of these bullshit laws, AND if they have a REASON to suspect those individuals then due process can be applied, warrants, and shit like that. But for the average person, no.
The Patriot act and many of the anti-terror laws passed in wake of 9/11 need to be gotten rid of, they have had no discernible good effect. I have to repeat myself... the fact that 9/11 wasn't foiled was due to a MONUMENTAL intelligence failure. They had warnings, tips, intelligence, everything they needed to stop the ploy, but they just sat on their asses and did nothing. The whole 'we need laws to help prevention, to be proactive and not reactive'... dude, intelligence agencies foiled plots before any of these laws were passed, and they CAN be proactive if they want. Conspiracy to commit a crime IS a crime, and that included hijacking airplanes to use as weapons.
You're speaking of the bi partisan patriot act?
Yes, and the Canadian acts that passed around the same time... and the newer Canadian bills passed and being proposed that are basically even more hardcore than the patriot act, except WITHOUT the threat of any terrorists. Canada right now is like 'we never needed these laws, but just WANT them anyway'.
Living in Denmark, I have tried bringing things up about chat control in the office and outside, and Danes' reaction come in 2 flavors:
- "Peter Hummelgård is an idiot", by those who didn't vote for one of the "left-centrist" parties governing right now.
- Silence.
It is really the same reaction.
Also, I am surprised by how many people here learn from me that the Danish police is working with Palantir.
But Denmark is a place where the main issue right now that there are local elections is that there will be a way too high percentage of foreigners voting, mostly because the number of Danes going to vote have been dwindling for some time.
I guess chat control and Palantir are technologies built for the kind of people who don't trust the "foreign neighbor who is into politics".
Name and shame: the fascist pushing for chat control is the Danish minister Peter Hummelgaard
Im sure he will volunteer his internet usage data as a moral example?
If he did, it wouldn't make things any better. Don't even give them the idea. "Look, I have nothing to fear from the cops because I agree with the cops, be like me, and nothing bad will happen"
There is literally a demanded exemption for politicians and military/police.
I was committing a sarcasm
A sarcasm they actually thought about and already acted upon directly.
Of course not. I bet he thinks he is above the rest of us.
Yeah, my comment was sarcastic.
Oh for fuck sake... Do they not get the fucking memo?
WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THIS BULLSHIT PROPOSAL.
Specially since they want the control to not apply to them. Pieces of shit, the lot of them.
I am of the opinion that politicians like these should be bullied relentlessly. Make them not be able to leave their house without getting "buus" thrown into their face. Want to be hierarchically superior than your constituents? Well, guess what, you will not be able to show up in public places. Piece of shit. This also applies to billionaires.
Unfortunately they don't give a shit what the people want.
I agree they should be held accountable for working against the people they're supposedly representing, at the very least we should be able to keep them out of positions of power in the future.
It's messed up they can keep doing this shit seemingly without consequences
Danish person here. Sorry about my country. Our politicians are totally decoupled from the average voter, and propose shit like this all the time.
Aren't they getting, like, at least a tiny bit of backlash for this shit?
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It's so lovely to see how the mask has finally fallen off and we get to see the EU as the totalitarian regime that it really is.
Who is pushing this? We need names of the people, names of the companies, names of the think tanks, they need to be made publicly known.
First name is the Danish minister of justice, Peter Hummelgaard. No idea who's behind him, but he's currently a stain on Danish politics.
Peter Hummelgård is a man of Palantir, whose software solution Gotham, in a customized version, is in use since years by the Danish Internal Intelligence and Police.
US tech, they will have legitimacy to backdoor the fuck out of everyone now that they ran out of dumbfuckistan people's data to train their water guzzling useless text regurgitating behemoths.
And before you forget, this is the country that spied on the entire EU for the US establishment. If the pedophile in chief decides sem~~i~~aglutide made in DK is worse than the Eli Lilly version, Dennark itself enters recession. That's before mentioning companies like Falck or Leo that also operate in the US.
Look at this, so you have an idea of how dire it is right now.
Semaglutide and insulin.
The entire Danish government is to blame. He is just the face of it, but he wouldn't be pushing this hard for it if it wasn't an important project for the government. The arrogant fucks really thinks getting this through will be some sort of prestige win for their EU presidency.
That is how far up their own asses they all are, and not only reflected in this, but in basically most of their domestic policies.
theil is the $ behind em, he's trying to be the new murdoch
I don't understand how this keeps coming up.
Do we need to go back to physical written letters?! Or do governments want access to all our correspondence both physical and digital.
As far as I understand it, if the proposal was voted on and lost, there'd be a cooldown period for a certain time before they're allowed to resubmit the same thing. The people pushing this are using a loophole of sorts where they retract the bill when it looks like it's not going to pass and then resubmit it later with slight alterations. It's an attrition tactic; they only have to win once whereas we have to repeal it every time.
I'm not too familiar with EU politics, but is there a constitution, and if so, is it possible to amend it to explicitly grant a right to privacy in communications to permenantly block attempts?
The EU has treaties which serve as a constitution of sorts – duties, powers, and limits of the EU, and its legal relationship with its member states. These treaties are signed by all member states and together make up the EU's constitutional basis.
New treaties are signed every now and again with the purpose of amending, extending and redefining previous ones.
There's e.g. the Maastricht Treaty (1997) which laid the ground work for a single currency and strengthened the power of the European Parliament (each member state has a number of seats and the representatives are elected nationally by a public vote).
The most recent one is the Lisbon Treaty (2009), which among other things, again, shifted the power balance in the EU in favour of the Parliament. It also strengthened EU's position as a full international legal personality. Other changes were to make the union's Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding and to explicitly allow a member state to leave the union.
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This is one of the things I don't get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is 'digital' it doesn't deserve the same protections as before?!
The situation is all kinds of messed up, capitalism also has a great deal to do with it. Problem is, that you as an individual will be known as stealing copyright material if you simply copied it, whereas someone/something else like AI would be treated entirely differently.
It kind of does look like a capitalist utopia with the rule breaking ai and all, authoritarianism being the other prevalent power.
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Fascists never get tired.
Everyone eventually takes the forever nap
My colleagues and I never stopped encoding everything important before committing it to a digital context. We have never trusted the powers that be not to grab for more power and control.
Denmark is a US puppet. This is legalising backdoors for three letter agencies from across the pond.
I can totally see a scenario where the US government tells them "keep pushing chat control or we're going to invade Greenland."
Something's goddamn fishy in the state of Denmark
Before brexit this could have been a milkshake
End stage capitalism comes for us all eventually. Unless you believe your country to be exceptional, then it will obviously never happen!
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