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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
Not OP but to respond to your question, like everything, there is a scale to this question. Would you give to the state 30% of your income to pay for public services? Most people would say yes. What about 40%? 50%? Most people agree that ta
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
> What does this rant have to do with the linked report in this article? This is not a rant. I responded to OPs message point by point and simply expressed my opinion on these matters just like he did. I also responded to OPs thinly veil
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
> Calling out blatant lying and bot propaganda isn't "smearing the opposition". I am not sure what you are trying to get at. Are you implying that this new draft is not in any way related to the recent Chat Control proposa
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
I appreciate the support but I am not surprised. Even on HN there is been a surge of users who instead of defending their arguments or positions on certain sensitive topics such as the EU prefer to simply smear the opposition. I write about
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
Politics and tech are basically intertwined at this point. Tech is also intertwined with Geo-politics, tax policies, mental health, and a bunch of other issues. One cannot talk about tech without talking inevitably of the second or third or
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
> There is no such thing as the EU wants X. There are huge differences between what the European Commission, the European Council, and the majority of the European Parliament want. Of course there is such a thing as EU wants X. The commi
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
> EU enshrined privacy in its charter of fundamental rights. GDPR was and still is a major protection. GDPR does not protect you from governments snooping on you. The same way it does not stop governments from collecting data on you: ht
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
Here we go again with new restrictions on civil liberties. This is Chat Control all over again. The EU won't stop until it has access to all your data, all your messages, anything you read, save, send will be scrutinized by the the big
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
I a sure it's Russian propaganda that the EU has basically tried for the last 3 years to ban encryption so that it can access all your personal messages without a warrant? Or is it also Russia propaganda that it wants to force VPNs to
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
> I'm old enough to remember internal borders with passport checks in Europe, before the wall fell and Poland was still on the other side of that. Nice to see them moving on from that. Europe is the outlier here. The rest of the wor
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by rdm_blackhole 5mo ago
Trust has been eroded for the last 30 years for many reasons and most of them are due to how the politicians and public institutions have behaved. In all western countries, if you dig a little, you will find scandals after scandals from the
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by rdm_blackhole 6mo ago
> I looked at the 5 examples for a bit. Reading the Wikipedia talk pages, I'd tend to agree that the sources removed are representing a fringe idea and that the Wikipedia process has been followed normally. Your comment is contradic
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by rdm_blackhole 6mo ago
And the next question is who's to blame? News organizations each push their own agendas by misrepresenting facts or present rumors or second comments as certainty. Then months later, we finally learn really what happened and realize th
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by rdm_blackhole 6mo ago
On the contrary, injecting your own views/propaganda in Wikipedia is a great way for your content or your version of history to be included in the outputs of LLMs since they all rely more or less on it during their training phase.
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by rdm_blackhole 6mo ago
That's awfully naive. China's cyber units or state actors most likely have access to Wikipedia and are not bothered by the Great Firewall. The citizens on the other hand, I agree with you.
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by rdm_blackhole 6mo ago
> If your competitor is dumping (selling for an unsustainably low price) then competing your way to bankruptcy is not the right option Italy is simply making a political choice to attract wealthy people instead of other people. Is it uns
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
I can't wait for the EU to preemptively delete emails with language that is supposedly deemed offensive or possibly containing misinformation or god forbid, pictures of my nieces and nephews which could be interpreted as child grooming
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
The EU is pushing to intercept and scan all private chat messages and all emails to "protect" the children and give all this information to Europol to keep in perpetuity so they can build a profile on you but sure everything is pe
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
> In politics, we engage in debates in our society using our real names and without visors. I expect the same from everyone else who critically examines our country and our society. Whats the problem with this exactly? As a politician wh
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
Why always bringing back everything to racism? The people of Switzerland want to maintain the look an feel of their country as it is. How is racism the first thing you think of when no one mentionned race?
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
Those same methods of identification are created by the same people who just a few months ago were arguing if it was legal to read all your private messages in case you are criminal of some sort without warrant , without due process. You&#x
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
It's funny how pointing a fact is called whataboutism. You trust the EU's pinky promise a keep their word that your ID will be safe and secure and never tied to what you say, the content of your messages or who you send them to. I
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
What happens when the governments around the world decide to ban something that you care about? Will you be so eager to agree with them or will you cry that your rights and your freedom are being taken away? Don't like social media, fi
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
> Direct your anger at the geriatrics in government who don't understand the risks of these laws first. No offence but I think you are being extremely naive if you think that the people in power and the lobbyists who have spent the
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
The same EU that is trying to backdoor every messaging app to "protect the children" TM? I 'll use their ID system on my dead body.
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
They already exists except that most people don't know about it and also it is extremely hard to move over all the existing users from Whatsapp to something less popular and less user friendly. Until that changes, then the governments
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by rdm_blackhole 8mo ago
> When big tech tosses money at Republicans and the Trump inauguration, they get what they paid for. This has nothing to do with republicans in particular. This is concerted effort by lobbying groups around the world who want to get more
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
I am surprised to see the positive takes on this sort of thing on HN considering that we all know that is just the first step of many steps that the current governments worldwide are rolling out. Once we agree to that, then next time, you&#
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> It's not an either-or. I understand but I am telling you that this argument is basically useless when people see their bill at the end of each month. > I wouldn't say Labour have failed here. In fact, efforts like this are
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> energy independence is also important for the nation. None of this matters to people who can't afford to heat their homes in the winter. The price reduction was a Labour campaign promise and on that front it has failed dramaticall

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