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This appears to be a rather sensationalist headline for a move that is admittedly boneheaded on Orbán's part. To ensure the state's ability to surveil, the gove
by Vivtek 11y ago
This appears to be a rather sensationalist headline for a move that is admittedly boneheaded on Orbán's part. To ensure the state's ability to surveil, the government had a plan to enforce the inclusion of backdoors.
However, it appears that after some consultation with people that had a clue - of which Hungary actually has a large number - the government has decided that would be a Bad Idea and has tabled the plans.
Source: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (http://tasz.hu/en/news/hungarian-government-plans-enforce-encryption-backdoors http://tasz.hu/en/news/hungarian-government-plans-enforce-en...).
This is actually very typical of Fidesz (Orbán Viktor's ruling party). They love making abrupt and sweeping changes to the law, then leaving everybody else to pick up the pieces. Occasionally, cooler heads prevail before the law is actually broken, but normally there's just a mess.
- Vivtek 11y agoAnd of course this was sold as an anti-terrorism feature: http://444.hu/2016/04/01/a-kormany-buntetne-a-titkositott-kommunikaciot-hasznalokat http://444.hu/2016/04/01/a-kormany-buntetne-a-titkositott-ko... As always.
- V-2 11y agoSame as with censorship :) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_VFA07WgAAv6Qa.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_VFA07WgAAv6Qa.jpg
- afandian 11y agoFor international readers, in US English 'table' means 'postpone', whereas in British English it means 'to present for discussion' which has almost the opposite meaning!
- toyg 11y agoI've never seen 'table' being used as 'postpone' by any American, either in literature or on the intertubes; is it some sort of professional / niche usage?
- DennisP 11y agoIt's used that way in meetings run under Robert's Rules. To table is to put off a decision until a future meeting.
- anonymousab 11y agoManaged to find the wiki article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure)#Difference_between_American_and_British_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...
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- earlz 11y agoI'm american, and I've definitely seen it used "Alright, let's just table the issue" implying "let's come back to that issue later". I can't say that the slang makes any sense, but that's slang for you heh 1: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-expression-we-can-table-this http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the...
- branchless 11y agoYou guys do use "leave it on the table" a lot.
- RodericDay 11y agoLeave money on the table?
- bovermyer 11y agoI rarely/never use that phrase, but I've often used "let's just table it" to mean "put off indefinitely until we forget about it."
- whiskeyz 11y ago
- Zigurd 11y agoHas a different meaning on reddit. I wonder what that does for the relative prevalence of each usage.
- samstave 11y agoWow I never knew that
- Kurtz79 11y agoInteresting, first time I hear it (I'm not a native speaker, but I have a lot of meetings with Americans), but Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster definitely seem to agree with you: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table
- Normal_gaussian 11y agoAs do the institutions of Oxford and Cambridge http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/table http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/table http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/table http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/table Interestingly it seems that the example usages provided in all the dictionaries would serve both meanings of the word.