There have always been bleeding-heart-starving-artist types who do not understand the digital world's realities and feel that producing content should result in money magically being funneled into their bank account. In this case, they are merely the useful idiots, because even if they got all the revenue from the use of their work over the entire internet, it would amount to pennies.
The EU is undemocratic because there is no clear way to hold representatives accountable. Simple as that. Every time something like this happens, we have to pull out all the stops just to maintain the fragile status quo we have and avoid sliding backwards into an authoritarian state that wields bureaucracy in slow motion. These MEPs are paid ridiculous amounts of money to sell out the public interest.
I'm in my 30s and cannot recall once in my lifetime that these dunning krugers have ever demonstrated sufficient understanding for what they are trying to do. They have a reverse Midas touch when it comes to 21st century issues. Still waiting for them to prove me wrong.
What you describe already happened, it's just that the new boss moved into the old boss' office before people could object. We had an accountable system, and now we no longer do.
With mass surveillance I get the idea they know they get 99% of what they ask for, and even more, they mock us because they know they can circumvent the remaining 1% easily through parallel construction.
Remember those NSA slides where they mock the public for willingly buying smartphones that can be tracked everywhere? Yeah, we're the morons, not them who openly lie to the public and redefine language itself to make what they're doing not a crime against humanity.
It's as if they installed cameras on every street and mock people for driving, except of course, that too is now practically normalized under the guise of "safety".
The EU is undemocratic because there is no clear way to hold representatives accountable. Simple as that. Every time something like this happens, we have to pull out all the stops just to maintain the fragile status quo we have and avoid sliding backwards into an authoritarian state that wields bureaucracy in slow motion. These MEPs are paid ridiculous amounts of money to sell out the public interest.
I'm in my 30s and cannot recall once in my lifetime that these dunning krugers have ever demonstrated sufficient understanding for what they are trying to do. They have a reverse Midas touch when it comes to 21st century issues. Still waiting for them to prove me wrong.