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That's literally what EU privacy laws are about and guess what... Anti government folk from the USA hated them and decided they were government overreach.

base698 1y ago
Ah yes, lock you up for Facebook posts UK is the bastion of privacy.
- gxs 1y ago
  To be fair to OP I don’t think the UK is in the EU
- olddustytrail 1y ago
  Firstly, the UK is not in the EU. That's what Brexit was. Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?
  - latency-guy2 1y ago
    > Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up? By all means, if that's the way you want to represent the issue, then there is no discussion to be had. I will, however, represent it this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Specific_case_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd... I can be compelled in a few situations in this incomplete list were of the "deserved" type. But you can't convince me on all of them.
chgs 1y ago
Us techbros like it when Bezos and Zuck and Musk have all the information, because you can “vote with your dollar” and avoid them.
rdm_blackhole 1y ago
Please, the EU is trying to ban encryption at this very moment, to say the that EU is pro privacy is a bit of a joke really. Privacy from companies maybe, privacy from governments and cops, certainly not.
- olddustytrail 1y ago
  What did your MEP say when you complained to them about it?
  - Eavolution 1y ago
    Mine said the party was taking it very seriously and it's clearly something that is important to me. I trust them to do exactly nothing.
- const_cast 1y ago
  The EU is both pro-privacy and anti-privacy. In many ways, they're ahead of the US - you can opt out of more telemetry, more advertising, more tracking. Good. But then the encryption stuff - bad. Informed consent laws - good. Laws about third-party tracking - good. So it's some good, some bad. But, on the topic of encryption, it's not like the US is pure here either.
- kergonath 1y ago
  > the EU is trying to ban encryption at this very moment, to say the that EU is pro privacy is a bit of a joke really. The EU is not a monolith. There are many people pushing in many different directions. Sometimes the result is good, sometimes less so.
  - harvey9 1y ago
    After the pushing is done then the resulting regulations are a monolith
- delusional 1y ago
  > privacy from governments and cops It is very much not clear to me that you should have privacy from governments or cops. Aren't the whole point of the government and cops that they are the institutions we have created to entrust with this access?

base698 1y ago

Ah yes, lock you up for Facebook posts UK is the bastion of privacy.

gxs 1y ago
To be fair to OP I don’t think the UK is in the EU
olddustytrail 1y ago
Firstly, the UK is not in the EU. That's what Brexit was. Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?
- latency-guy2 1y ago
  > Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up? By all means, if that's the way you want to represent the issue, then there is no discussion to be had. I will, however, represent it this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Specific_case_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd... I can be compelled in a few situations in this incomplete list were of the "deserved" type. But you can't convince me on all of them.

chgs 1y ago

Us techbros like it when Bezos and Zuck and Musk have all the information, because you can “vote with your dollar” and avoid them.

rdm_blackhole 1y ago

Please, the EU is trying to ban encryption at this very moment, to say the that EU is pro privacy is a bit of a joke really. Privacy from companies maybe, privacy from governments and cops, certainly not.

olddustytrail 1y ago
What did your MEP say when you complained to them about it?
- Eavolution 1y ago
  Mine said the party was taking it very seriously and it's clearly something that is important to me. I trust them to do exactly nothing.
const_cast 1y ago
The EU is both pro-privacy and anti-privacy. In many ways, they're ahead of the US - you can opt out of more telemetry, more advertising, more tracking. Good. But then the encryption stuff - bad. Informed consent laws - good. Laws about third-party tracking - good. So it's some good, some bad. But, on the topic of encryption, it's not like the US is pure here either.
kergonath 1y ago
> the EU is trying to ban encryption at this very moment, to say the that EU is pro privacy is a bit of a joke really. The EU is not a monolith. There are many people pushing in many different directions. Sometimes the result is good, sometimes less so.
- harvey9 1y ago
  After the pushing is done then the resulting regulations are a monolith
delusional 1y ago
> privacy from governments and cops It is very much not clear to me that you should have privacy from governments or cops. Aren't the whole point of the government and cops that they are the institutions we have created to entrust with this access?