boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoEuropean Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messagesedri.orgexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1636arrow-down14cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mleurope@feddit.de
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minus-squareWispy2891@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down3·1 year agoBut in this case it was the EU themselves that wanted the backdoors so badly that they ran lobbying ads on xitter “omg can you think of the children”
minus-squareTheMurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYou can’t really say that. In principle, a group of very few individuals can make a proposal in the EU, because it’s democratic. It was down voted. By the EU. It’s nothing different than a bill introduced in every other country, that the majority think is bonkers.
But in this case it was the EU themselves that wanted the backdoors so badly that they ran lobbying ads on xitter “omg can you think of the children”
You can’t really say that.
In principle, a group of very few individuals can make a proposal in the EU, because it’s democratic. It was down voted. By the EU.
It’s nothing different than a bill introduced in every other country, that the majority think is bonkers.