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The EU is progressively turning into a totalitarian construct. Especially when it comes to digital laws and spying on its citizens. But when the base is fault
by lakomen 3y ago
The EU is progressively turning into a totalitarian construct.
Especially when it comes to digital laws and spying on its citizens.
But when the base is faulty (Lisboa treaty) you can't expect the construct not to be faulty.
Their actions give wind to right wing extremist parties throughout Europe.
- CrisMystik 3y agoWhat's the problem with the Lisbon Treaty?
- tut-urut-utut 3y agoThe whole purpose of EU is to be able to blindingly push all such totalitarian, anti European, pro capital and pro US decisions that would have almost no chance to pass in most of the national parliaments.
- toyg 3y agoIt's not like the new law says governments must spy on journalists; it just doesn't try hard enough to protect them. That's like saying that because the US is utterly failing to ensure privacy of communications over the internet, it's a "totalitarian construct". The truth is that, sometimes, in a democracy there just isn't enough political capital out there to pass a law that looks "obviously" right.
- phendrenad2 3y agoThe two most prominent EU member states amended the law specifically to remove the prohibitions on states spying on journalists. So this is still newsworthy.
- toyg 3y agoAbsolutely. But it's ludicrous for people to say this means the EU is becoming "totalitarian". This is how we cheapen words, like we used to do with "Nazi" before Godwin's Law saved us from the worst of it.
- tinus_hn 3y agoArguably this faux democracy is even worse than the authoritarian rulership that peeps through the cracks.