With a procedural trick, proponents in the EU Parliament are pushing for reactivation of indiscriminate scans of chat messages shortly before the summer break.
It will keep returning as long as there is no counter movement. Instead of only trying to stop chat control, we should push in the opposite direction. Propose legislation that enforces stricter privacy rules, forbid commercialization of private data (e.g. criminalize and penalize data brokers) and so on. We need to shift the balance in favor of the people instead of trying to maintain a status quo.
A Newtonian approach, every action requires an (equal and) opposite reaction.
Some US states allow citizen initiative so we could ban something similar in our state constitution. For some reason we haven’t done this. Does the EU have a citizen referendum, a way to update the charter, or any law that would prevent a defeated piece of legislation from being attempted over and over? Perhaps we should introduce a law to publish every politicians text messages publicly. When it fails, we’ll just submit it over and over again.
It’s chat control. I only expect it to keep returning like a bad rash
It will keep returning as long as there is no counter movement. Instead of only trying to stop chat control, we should push in the opposite direction. Propose legislation that enforces stricter privacy rules, forbid commercialization of private data (e.g. criminalize and penalize data brokers) and so on. We need to shift the balance in favor of the people instead of trying to maintain a status quo. A Newtonian approach, every action requires an (equal and) opposite reaction.
Some US states allow citizen initiative so we could ban something similar in our state constitution. For some reason we haven’t done this. Does the EU have a citizen referendum, a way to update the charter, or any law that would prevent a defeated piece of legislation from being attempted over and over? Perhaps we should introduce a law to publish every politicians text messages publicly. When it fails, we’ll just submit it over and over again.