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"Haha, sure, it’s real invigilation terror over here in Europe. " More like slow addition of smothering layers of bureaucracy upon bureaucracy until your breat
by inglor_cz 3y ago
"Haha, sure, it’s real invigilation terror over here in Europe. "
More like slow addition of smothering layers of bureaucracy upon bureaucracy until your breathing space is severely limited. Combined with our ghastly demographics, I think our growth is a thing of the past.
In many individual EU countries including mine, something like Chat Control 2.0 would not fly and the attention of the public would be very negative; especially east of the Iron Curtain, memories of authoritarian regimes are too strong for people to trust their politicians with this kind of power.
Brussels is distant enough that EU politicians can pull off such legislation without the general public being aware of it.
The distance between the EC and a random European is way too big. Even bigger than the distance between the Feds and a random American in USA.
- dmcq2 3y agoThe principle of subsidiarity was supposed to counter making laws affecting individuals like this would, this sort of stuff should be up to individual countries. The bureaucrats are trying to expand out of their remit.
- inglor_cz 3y ago"The bureaucrats are trying to expand out of their remit." Which, to be frank, was totally expectable and the fact that the system wasn't prepared enough for this behavior constitutes a significant weakness.
- Agingcoder 3y agoHungary and Poland don’t strike me as very lax governments, so it’s not obvious to me that people in Eastern Europe would actively fight that kind of legislation.
- inglor_cz 3y agoLocally, such a proposal would immediately become subject of the local cultural war. Journalists would hop on the news and make clickbait of them incessantly. But few people, including the media, pay real attention to anything that happens in Brussels.