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agency in charge of spying on people sends out a proposal "hey we think we should be able to spy on everyone", news at 11. Seriously, this happens several time
by immibis 1y ago
agency in charge of spying on people sends out a proposal "hey we think we should be able to spy on everyone", news at 11.
Seriously, this happens several times a year and always gets rejected by the actual lawmakers.
- wsc981 1y agoA quote from Jean-Claude Juncker who headed the EU Commission in the past: > We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
- immibis 1y agoGood thing they can't make laws, only make proposals to the lawmakers asking them to make laws. And the fact they're scared to let anyone know who wrote the proposal says a lot.
- BSDobelix 1y ago>Good thing they can't make laws Bad thing that mechanism even exist. >And the fact they're scared to let anyone know who wrote the proposal says a lot. True, that's absolutely against an "open society" Pun intended. ;)
- immibis 1y agoBad thing the surveillance authority is allowed to suggest laws? Everyone should be able to suggest laws, even bad people, even bad laws. That's called a republic. Suggested laws that are unpopular should not be implemented. That's called a democracy.
- BSDobelix 1y ago>Everyone should be able to suggest laws >>In practice the Council would frequently ignore whatever Parliament might suggest and even sometimes reach an agreement before receiving Parliament's opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_procedure#Consultation_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_pro...