Peter Thiel and a puppet.
Name and shame: the fascist pushing for chat control is the Danish minister Peter Hummelgaard
Im sure he will volunteer his internet usage data as a moral example?
If he did, it wouldn’t make things any better. Don’t even give them the idea. “Look, I have nothing to fear from the cops because I agree with the cops, be like me, and nothing bad will happen”
There is literally a demanded exemption for politicians and military/police.
I was committing a sarcasm
A sarcasm they actually thought about and already acted upon directly.
Of course not. I bet he thinks he is above the rest of us.
Yeah, my comment was sarcastic.
I propose this law:
Ban politicians from trying to do this shit AND strengthen privacy laws and throttle data collection. Allow anonymous SIMs and phone calling. You might ask 'but what about drug dealers and terrorists?" Trust me, they’ve been able to handle them before without any of these bullshit laws, AND if they have a REASON to suspect those individuals then due process can be applied, warrants, and shit like that. But for the average person, no.
The Patriot act and many of the anti-terror laws passed in wake of 9/11 need to be gotten rid of, they have had no discernible good effect. I have to repeat myself… the fact that 9/11 wasn’t foiled was due to a MONUMENTAL intelligence failure. They had warnings, tips, intelligence, everything they needed to stop the ploy, but they just sat on their asses and did nothing. The whole ‘we need laws to help prevention, to be proactive and not reactive’… dude, intelligence agencies foiled plots before any of these laws were passed, and they CAN be proactive if they want. Conspiracy to commit a crime IS a crime, and that included hijacking airplanes to use as weapons.
You’re speaking of the bi partisan patriot act?
Yes, and the Canadian acts that passed around the same time… and the newer Canadian bills passed and being proposed that are basically even more hardcore than the patriot act, except WITHOUT the threat of any terrorists. Canada right now is like ‘we never needed these laws, but just WANT them anyway’.
Danish person here. Sorry about my country. Our politicians are totally decoupled from the average voter, and propose shit like this all the time.
Aren’t they getting, like, at least a tiny bit of backlash for this shit?
Its okay, sometimes you just want to vote a better party, but the pencil just marks another. Shit happens.
Oh for fuck sake… Do they not get the fucking memo?
WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THIS BULLSHIT PROPOSAL.
Specially since they want the control to not apply to them. Pieces of shit, the lot of them.
I am of the opinion that politicians like these should be bullied relentlessly. Make them not be able to leave their house without getting “buus” thrown into their face. Want to be hierarchically superior than your constituents? Well, guess what, you will not be able to show up in public places. Piece of shit. This also applies to billionaires.
Who is pushing this? We need names of the people, names of the companies, names of the think tanks, they need to be made publicly known.
I don’t understand how this keeps coming up.
Do we need to go back to physical written letters?! Or do governments want access to all our correspondence both physical and digital.
As far as I understand it, if the proposal was voted on and lost, there’d be a cooldown period for a certain time before they’re allowed to resubmit the same thing. The people pushing this are using a loophole of sorts where they retract the bill when it looks like it’s not going to pass and then resubmit it later with slight alterations. It’s an attrition tactic; they only have to win once whereas we have to repeal it every time.
because we didn’t depose the people trying to do this yet.
As far as I remember the only fascists who stopped causing problems were not the ones who were deposed. They were the dead ones.
well, death is an effective method for deposition
This is one of the things I don’t get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is ‘digital’ it doesn’t deserve the same protections as before?!
The situation is all kinds of messed up, capitalism also has a great deal to do with it. Problem is, that you as an individual will be known as stealing copyright material if you simply copied it, whereas someone/something else like AI would be treated entirely differently.
It kind of does look like a capitalist utopia with the rule breaking ai and all, authoritarianism being the other prevalent power.
I truly believe our politicians are out of touch. Either because they themselves are too old or because they dont understand the underlying concepts.
What truly upsets me is understanding things like USBs and HDDs still exists. So if someone wanted to share “illegal content” completely “offline” it’s already possible to do so. How does scanning everyone’s personal “letters” help track down people sharing “illegal content” hand to hand.
Fascists never get tired.
Everyone eventually takes the forever nap
My colleagues and I never stopped encoding everything important before committing it to a digital context. We have never trusted the powers that be not to grab for more power and control.
Living in Denmark, I have tried bringing things up about chat control in the office and outside, and Danes’ reaction come in 2 flavors:
- “Peter Hummelgård is an idiot”, by those who didn’t vote for one of the “left-centrist” parties governing right now.
- Silence.
It is really the same reaction.
Also, I am surprised by how many people here learn from me that the Danish police is working with Palantir.
But Denmark is a place where the main issue right now that there are local elections is that there will be a way too high percentage of foreigners voting, mostly because the number of Danes going to vote have been dwindling for some time.
I guess chat control and Palantir are technologies built for the kind of people who don’t trust the “foreign neighbor who is into politics”.
It’s so lovely to see how the mask has finally fallen off and we get to see the EU as the totalitarian regime that it really is.
Something’s goddamn fishy in the state of Denmark
End stage capitalism comes for us all eventually. Unless you believe your country to be exceptional, then it will obviously never happen!
Before brexit this could have been a milkshake
Could this voluntary chat control be a weapon to kill encrypted messaging, through defamation?
If the non-encrypted messaging apps start promoting that they have implemented measures to protect children, could this be used to make people believe that other services support child abuse?
Possibly, their only choice in furthering their evil ambitions is manipulation. It’s only natural they will play the blaming game once they’re situated in - authoritarianism is all about it.
can we just strip denmark of their “Western nation” title?
What are you talking about, they just won another feather in that cap
