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These people perhaps have hidden financial motives (e.g. share holdings in scanning software companies), or they lack the technical expertise to judge the impac

by jll29 4y ago

These people perhaps have hidden financial motives (e.g. share holdings in scanning software companies), or they lack the technical expertise to judge the impact, and they may actually think what they want to do is a good idea. In any case, they must be stopped at all cost. Freedom is priceless in the literal sense of the word, or people would not be willing to die for it. Germany has a historic responsibility (after two totalitarian regimes that spied on its cities in its past), which thankfully means a substantial part of the population was educated in school enough about the dangers that they would not support any party who let that kind of nonsense creep in, probably even regardless of which party is in power.

throwaway8689 4y ago
Simpler financial motive: residual payments on their old movies.
thg 4y ago
> Germany has a historic responsibility (after two totalitarian regimes that spied on its cities in its past), which thankfully means a substantial part of the population was educated in school enough about the dangers that they would not support any party who let that kind of nonsense creep in, probably even regardless of which party is in power. I wish it were so, but alas no. We have strong historic privacy laws, data protection authorities with teeth and a working court system constantly overturning new anti-privacy laws. Most of us Germans simply do neither care about privacy nor understand why "it all has to be so hard". The parties most people here vote for are also the parties that constantly enact laws eroding our privacy, only to then have them overturned by the courts. If not for those safeguards, Germany would again be on its best way on turning into an authoritarian police state again. The only reason Germany is opposing this right now is that we currently have both the Liberals and the Greens in the government coalition. The Social Democrats (SPD) would have just winked it through and the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) would have fiercely supported it.
foxhill 4y ago
more likely: they are victims. which makes sense. but there’s a reason why victims of crime aren’t allowed to be jurors of their own case.

by jll29 4y ago

throwaway8689 4y ago

Simpler financial motive: residual payments on their old movies.

thg 4y ago

> Germany has a historic responsibility (after two totalitarian regimes that spied on its cities in its past), which thankfully means a substantial part of the population was educated in school enough about the dangers that they would not support any party who let that kind of nonsense creep in, probably even regardless of which party is in power. I wish it were so, but alas no. We have strong historic privacy laws, data protection authorities with teeth and a working court system constantly overturning new anti-privacy laws. Most of us Germans simply do neither care about privacy nor understand why "it all has to be so hard". The parties most people here vote for are also the parties that constantly enact laws eroding our privacy, only to then have them overturned by the courts. If not for those safeguards, Germany would again be on its best way on turning into an authoritarian police state again. The only reason Germany is opposing this right now is that we currently have both the Liberals and the Greens in the government coalition. The Social Democrats (SPD) would have just winked it through and the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) would have fiercely supported it.

foxhill 4y ago

more likely: they are victims. which makes sense. but there’s a reason why victims of crime aren’t allowed to be jurors of their own case.