>the European Commission is probably the worse that we can have. It is totally corrupted (see the vice president with bags of cash given by the Qatar and co) or at least morally corrupted by lobbies.
Euroskepticism is a virus, but OTOH the Five Stars had a good idea: politics should not be a profession.
I'd love to see more folks do good work then pivot to entertainment if they want bags of Qatari cash in a way that doesn't involve destabilization
>Independently of the broader privacy and surveillance topic, this is highly concerning: if institutions, like the EC, start to run agendas through and by carefully created echo chambers and keep certain segments of the demographic out of the loop, all is lost, as there is no common and public realm of political discourse anymore.
It's especially annoying since many people who vote in the EU are a bit more... extreme? Like when you're marketing to "Beligum" or "NL" whatever... the people who've been there multiple generations are the right wing parties.
The folks obeying the spirit of the laws are like the students in America, oft not registered locally.
It's a feedback loop of the same sort who Brexited being sent other things in their feeds.
I agree with the author:
>If there is insufficient support for a proposed legislation, the only proper democratic response is to withdraw it
I'm tired of this fraternity brother model of public policy -- ask until you hear the "yes" you wanted from those who didn't block you from being heard at all.
I suspect any modified hardware would be targeted, not every single computer. You probably shouldn't order a computer online if this is your threat model, and instead pay for one off the shelf.
Euroskepticism is a virus, but OTOH the Five Stars had a good idea: politics should not be a profession.
I'd love to see more folks do good work then pivot to entertainment if they want bags of Qatari cash in a way that doesn't involve destabilization