The European Commission wants to start eavesdropping on all our private messages, photos/videos and conversations(!) via apps. To pressure the Netherlands and other countries to vote in favour, it posted illegal, misleading ads on Twitter/X. At election time. This is unheard of:
The ads are also manipulative: black-and-white videos showing young girls, older men, obscure music and an ad text suggesting that anyone who is against the law is against "an end" to child abuse. The aim: to play on emotions and persuade people.
These persuasion tactics - manipulative advertisements, misleading statistics and microtargeting on beliefs and beliefs - are reminiscent of disinformation campaigns during the US elections and Brexit, are therefore illegal, and have no place in a democracy.
This Thursday 19/10, a vote will be held on this law, which is incompatible with the right to privacy and freedom of communication and the presumption of innocence, and which experts say will not stop child abuse at all, but will report many innocent citizens as suspects.
If the law is passed, no one will be able to communicate confidently and safely digitally. Not even children. With every conversation with your lawyer, doctor or a journalist, you run the risk that the scanner will 'go off', and the message will be shared with the EU.
What about criminals? Those delete WhatsApp, continue on the dark web, or encrypt files on their computer before sending them. An extra step that innocent people will not take, but protects criminals: with a simple step, the scanner will not able to scan the contents of the files
Equally important, this disinformation campaign and attempt to influence the opinions of member states and citizens, is completely unacceptable in a democratic state governed by the rule of law. If this has no consequences for the European Commission, where do we draw the line?
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@DannyMekic
> [...] democratic state governed by the rule of law.
cf. spooner:
> What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible, dominion over all other men whom they can subject to their power. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, to subject all other men to their will and service. It is the assumption by one man, or body of men, of a right to abolish outright all the natural rights, all the natural liberty of other men; to make all other men their slaves; to arbitrarily dictate to all other men what they may, and may not, do; what they may, and may not, have; what they may, and may not, be. It is, in short, the assumption of a right to banish the principle of human rights, the principle of justice itself, from off the earth, and set up their own personal will, pleasure, and interest in its place. All this, and nothing less, is involved in the very idea that there can be any such thing as human legislation that is obligatory upon those upon whom it is imposed.
the whole construct is phony bullshit by autocrats anyway, what else to expect than autocratic laws.
