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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago

Oh my fucking god holy shit EU, you can have my dick picks, just shut the fuck up about Chat Control already. You don't have to pass any laws. I will email them to you. Just pipe the fuck down already.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They have mass surveillance systems, now they want mass identification systems, then they'll want mass ~~accountab~~ suppression systems and then the internet is dead as medium of free expression and we lose the use of the greatest communication technology human beings have ever created, to disagree with our rulers.

[–] razen@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Any protest for this by our fellow Europeans?

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 22 points 11 hours ago

There are reasons why I strongly support Mullvad. This is one of them.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 50 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

Okay, Europeans, when is someone gonna nut up and take these fascists out!?

  • An American
[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Said the American who can't take Trump out.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

People are always trying to off the president. It's literally the most dangerous job in the U.S. That fuck is just really lucky and persists at not rolling a seven

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We can't even take out our own fascists.....

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago

And neither can they, apparently.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stones and glass houses here a little bit mate

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's poking fun at all the Europeans who say the same thing on here to every American.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Ah thanks for another interpretation. I often suck at this in text, so can I ask what makes you think that? I’m not doubting you, just trying to learn.

Is it the interrobang?

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 43 minutes ago

It's the identification as an american. Americans just assume everyone knows they're american, so it stands out as an obvious extremifier to point out its satirical nature.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 54 minutes ago

It's... More of an art than a science.

It's just a fairly common thing people say online about Americans. The comment in question says the exact same thing about Europeans AND specifies they're an American. Classic turnabout IMO.

Of course if you're not terminally online you might just not get the reference

[–] Enzy@feddit.nu 4 points 7 hours ago

With pleasure.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 15 points 11 hours ago

They have been taken out over and over.

But democracy demands we let them try.

[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

They have put down roots in the Brussels bureaucracy. Authoritarian theories are now dominant over democratic ones there. To weed them out, it would be necessary to elect leftist leaders who radically prefer leftist civil servants throughout Europe, which is now farther away from realisation than it has been for decades.

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[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 100 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Any "secure system" with a deliberate backdoor (no matter who it's for) is not a secure system.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 28 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I always think of that scene from the simpsons where smithers and burns walk through 8 layers of security doors with various identification techniques, and then in the final room there's an old screen door hanging off its hinges to the outside.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 hours ago

Authoritarians will always try to capture more control under their bullshit hierarchy, this isn't a trade of liberties for societal safeties, it's trading privacy for oppression.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Have they lost? Don't we get voluntary chat control that is strongly recommended or rather recommanded for high risk chat?

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Does the EU not have any sort of rule or directive against trying to vote the same thing 12345 times? Heck, IIRC even the US has that one.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

If the US has such a rule then it's not effective. Look at how many times the GOP tried to kill the ACA (or at least pass pointless statements denouncing it). It was at least into the 50s. Probably more than that. Instead of trying to pass useful, practical laws, politicians played the same theatrics over and over again.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They just keep renaming it and slightly changing it so it's never exactly the same.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 12 hours ago

Friggin' Theseus's Chat Control.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 13 hours ago

The same thing? I thinks so

But nothing stopping you to charge it a tiny bit and try again

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 195 points 18 hours ago (29 children)

I am deeply pissed that they just keep on attempting. This is costing millions, for nothing. The EU should introduce a forced wait period for declined topics, as this here is the abuse of the democratic system.

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