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I haven't actually looked at the numbers but my impression is that all those attempts are coming from people from the more developed and less corrupt northern c
by mrtksn 2y ago
I haven't actually looked at the numbers but my impression is that all those attempts are coming from people from the more developed and less corrupt northern countries. Maybe from their perspective you can trust the state to do the right thing %100 of the time? I don't know if that's the case but whoever is coming up with these must be living under the rock because anyone following what's happening the last few years and especially the last few weeks must be terrified of giving too much information to the state because in fact the developments in the USA show us that the state can be captured and data can be accessed by people outside of the legal frameworks. Even if your state is perfect, your mortal enemy can indeed take over and have access to these tools to do god knows what.
I expect this attempt to fail like all previous attempts as there are enough people with sense in the EU.
- kubb 2y agoYes, they have high trust and want to use the state to improve their society. It’s been working well for them, so why wouldn’t they.
- sam_lowry_ 2y agoHigh trust or ostrich attitude? Looking at this recent post [1], the later is more probable. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493412
- Hizonner 2y agoBecause "high trust" involving centralizing a huge amount of power tends to work really well until it suddenly fails catastrophically. Which it tends to do on a scale around a human lifetime, sometimes a bit shorter, sometimes a bit longer.
- nickslaughter02 2y agoUrsula has been in the center of every privacy violation attempt and she's German. The mandatory on device scanning proposal (next meeting is April 8th) now has majority support with votes from all over EU, notable not Finland's nor Estonia's (not yet anyway, their personal has changed). https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/signal-2024-12-11-152711-002-2.jpeg https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sig...
- bdhcuidbebe 2y ago> coming from people from the more developed and less corrupt northern countries Your opinions, not facts. Corruption in Nordic countries, especially Sweden has been on the rise for 2 decades.