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Are we talking about the German government that was pushing mandatory communication meta data retention for all? That classifies people as "dangerous" without
by rndgermandude 7y ago
Are we talking about the German government that was pushing mandatory communication meta data retention for all?
That classifies people as "dangerous" without a trial and allows for the temporary imprisonment of those people without any court involvement whatsoever?
The government that was a driving force behind the copyright directive (aka article 13)?
The government that made unconstitutional laws to allow police to install trojans on people's devices?
That tried to push an EU-wide censorship infrastructure with secret filter lists under the guise of "fighting child porn", while lying about child porn (e.g. they claimed child porn is not illegal in India, which is not true) and where then-family minister von der Leyen (now about to become EU commission president) screened actual child porn to journalists at a press conference to influence their reporting?
The government that changed the law so that now you have to talk to the police most of the time (as a "witness")
That helped the NSA to spy on communication of other EU leaders and German politicians as well? And then tried to hide it when caught, using every dirty (legal) trick imaginable?
That regularly does mass surveillance on peaceful protesters? Or let the police lose to bash up a few of them?
That made a law that essentially turned social media companies into law enforcement agencies with no supervision?
That currently tries to create laws to force service providers to turn over communication "even if it is encrypted", aka defacto crypto backdoors?
and so on ...