>> this keeps getting proposed every few months and it keeps getting rejected > This has been going on for 15 years I paste here the comment I wrote a few hou

>> this keeps getting proposed every few months and it keeps getting rejected > This has been going on for 15 years I paste here the comment I wrote a few hours ago in the thread “European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344817 Indeed, in the words of the previous President of the European Commission: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.” https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker#1999 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker#1999 The current President of the European Commission has been a long time advocate for Internet control: “However, in the digital community, her posturing for the EU’s top job has caused concern. In 2000 [sic, actually 2009], when Von Der Leyen was Families minister, she advocated for the mandatory blocking of child pornography online via a list of offending websites managed by police authorities. Germany’s Pirate Party claimed that the law would lead to censorship of the internet.” “The outcry that resulted was dubbed the ‘Zensursula’ scandal, blending the German word for censorship (“Zensur”) and her name (“Ursula”). The move was eventually repealed after it being challenged broadly, including a petition that had garnered tens of thousands of signatures.” https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/digital-brief-von-der-leyens-censorship-worries/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/digital-brief-...