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>>tokai+(OP)
I was very pissed at this, and when I read this part I couldn't continue, it boiled my blood.

> *EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules. They get privacy. You and your family do not. Demand fairness.

>>101008+Gi
A lot of actual pedophiles will be exposed if it was used on politicians, we don't want that.

>>jahari+2n
While we're talking about corrupt politicians, why is this all happening all at once?

America, Great Britain, and the EU are all creating tracking, monitoring, and censorship regulations. All at the same time.

We're turning the internet into the 1984 inevitability it was predicted to become.

We need a Bill of Rights against this. But the public is too lay to push for this. Bolstering or eroding privacy rights will never happen in the direction we want, only the one we don't. It's so frustrating.

>>echelo+Vn
I think the UK (and EU) have been at this for a while. The UK pushed for the Data Retention Directive in the EU in the mid 2000s that required ISPs to save all the websites you visit. This was eventually ruled to be illegal, but it was still in force for several years.

These guys have been at it for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

>>Aerroo+Ew
Australia too. They've been playing with this for decades. The latest push is similar to the UK: age verification for porn and social media, but watch it expand once introduced.

The Establishment really don't like how they're not in control of what everyone hears or sees any more. It used to be so cozy for them.

>>marcus+vb1
In Australia it's going to be really easy to justify adding this as a requirement to video games: they already ban games by default and then selectively allow them. Bridging the two seems pretty easy to justify politically.

I guess liberal democracy's days are numbered.