alt Hacker NewsGod fucking damn it not again
This is, what, the fifth time in ten years they try to pass shit like this?
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They generally don't and won't stop until there are real repercussions for that, like losing your political career/being canceled in society over voting for it.
The fascist, autocratic impulse is a big in the human firmware and will never go away. We exist constantly balanced on the razor edge precipice because we are capable of little else. Self-governing humans are not a stable system.
The arrival of AI has made mass surveillance pass a certain threshold. Now we're just a step away from aristocrat heaven.
As Juncker, ex president of European Commision said, you keep trying till it passes at some point. Good luck revoking it later…
What do they gain? The only reason I can think of it's that it's deep state control. If there was a conspiracy like that would they be acting much differently?
They only need to succeed one time. People are generally preoccupied with a lot of other things right now, so maybe this is their lucky shot…