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Maybe it isn't about child safety, but something else. But in that case the whole thing is a conspiracy, where some top politicians push for it for some secret

by mongol 2y ago

Maybe it isn't about child safety, but something else. But in that case the whole thing is a conspiracy, where some top politicians push for it for some secret reason under the disguise of another reason. How broad would such a conspiracy be? Such thing would be more common in domestic politics I feel, because there are tighter circles in the governance of a country. But for something Europe-wide it must be much harder to pull off under some false pretense.

asdff 2y ago
Marijuana is illegal in most of Europe. And we got the reason for that policy straight from Nixon campaign strategists: it made for an easy justification to crack down on and vilify minorities and left wing counter culture groups. So yes, they use Big Lie in europe as well.
uoaei 2y ago
The only people who need to be in on the conspiracy are those who 1) see through the superficial narrative and 2) have any power to change the course of its implementation. I suspect that list is quite small.
AnthonyMouse 2y ago
A plausible source of these sorts of things is that some government(s) fund their intelligence service to do signals intelligence, but intelligence services commonly have no morals or accountability because they operate in secret and claim national security whenever anyone comes to question their activities. So they use the money to lobby for mechanisms to have backdoors or chokepoints installed, or require vulnerabilities the equivalent of backdoors, and use dirty and illegal tricks under the table to get them passed. The governments they're lobbying usually aren't even the ones paying them, though maybe sometimes they are. It's basically the equivalent of Dual EC DRBG but targeting the legislative process instead of a standards body, and obviously an inherently difficult thing to prove in an individual case, but the response to it should be the same in any case: Don't pass laws that would be to the advantage of a foreign intelligence service. You certainly don't want to give them the damn thing whether they're the ones pushing for it or not.

by mongol 2y ago

asdff 2y ago

Marijuana is illegal in most of Europe. And we got the reason for that policy straight from Nixon campaign strategists: it made for an easy justification to crack down on and vilify minorities and left wing counter culture groups. So yes, they use Big Lie in europe as well.

uoaei 2y ago

The only people who need to be in on the conspiracy are those who 1) see through the superficial narrative and 2) have any power to change the course of its implementation. I suspect that list is quite small.

AnthonyMouse 2y ago

A plausible source of these sorts of things is that some government(s) fund their intelligence service to do signals intelligence, but intelligence services commonly have no morals or accountability because they operate in secret and claim national security whenever anyone comes to question their activities. So they use the money to lobby for mechanisms to have backdoors or chokepoints installed, or require vulnerabilities the equivalent of backdoors, and use dirty and illegal tricks under the table to get them passed. The governments they're lobbying usually aren't even the ones paying them, though maybe sometimes they are. It's basically the equivalent of Dual EC DRBG but targeting the legislative process instead of a standards body, and obviously an inherently difficult thing to prove in an individual case, but the response to it should be the same in any case: Don't pass laws that would be to the advantage of a foreign intelligence service. You certainly don't want to give them the damn thing whether they're the ones pushing for it or not.