alt Hacker NewsThe dictators part is false, the EU is not a structure you can easily dictate. But this encryption backdoor thing is somebody's pet project and extremely alarming. The UK has a similar bend they've already put in place with IPA and TCNs. The US is way gone on decrypted stored data and metadata, but not on encryption backdoors yet, though legislators have tried.
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shevy-java • today at 6:33 PM
You can. The way this works is via something called money. Or more generally, financial incentives, kickbacks, you name it.
Using the UK as bad example, which it is, does not excuse the EU being bad too (or rather here, the EU commission).
leonidasrup • today at 8:31 PM
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Can you please explain to me why you think this is the case? Can parliament make law or not? Why is the commission the only body that can make law? Its staffed with people that appear to serve special interests. I saw this during the Stop Killing Games Where the EU commission meet with the game industry privately in EU before the decision on the Stop Destroying Video games Initiative. If there is no way to challenge the EU commission's practices that are not democratic, how can you consider the EU commission a body that actually works for I members?