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This shows that the attack was planned by the powers that be, if not planned at least not actively blocked.

It was 1 guy with a weapon that the Austrian secret service was warned about. The media made it 6 people doing a huge thing, in the end it was just 1 guy with an AK47 apparently. Austrian intelligence was warned by the Slovaks about him and they let him do regardless. Just like the 9/11 stuff, they knew what was coming and they allowed it because it suited their political agenda.

1 guy shooting around doesn't justify chat apps being monitored. This is a political setup.

We need to leave the EU ASAP.

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> We need to leave the EU ASAP.

I'd rather not. Can we fix it?

The kinds of people who call for eliminating international institutions rather than reforming them are generally less interested in the actual problem they cause and more interested in NIMBYing other human beings.

Really, lies and slander, ad hominem attacks? I have expected more from a news site frequented by supposedly educated people.

I don't think it's possible. I remind you about how much we protested against the upload filters about hosts being responsible for content their users upload, about the censorship laws in general in 2018. The protesters were called "bots". When the young people went out and protested they were defamed. In the end everything passed by a shady vote. That is why we need to leave the EU. How do you fix a dictatorship? You can't fix it, you can kill or peacefully leave. The system is flawed, read the Lisboa treaty.

Once the EU starts controlling all communication it is game over. It will be worse than China.

Do you have any sources on this? I’m interested.

I am from Slovakia and yes - this idiot actually went to our capital city (near border) to a gun shop and tried to buy ammunition for his AK-47. Of course you can't buy anything if you are not a citizen and you don't have a gun permit. So he didn't buy anything, the seller contacted the police and they did a background check and found out that he was sentenced for radicalism, he tried to go to Syria to fight a war and so on. They sent an official warning in June to Austria. Austria didn't act. You will find lots of news on this. There is actually a scan of the official letter Slovakia sent with all the details floating on the internet, but it's in Slovak: https://i.imgur.com/vxCU6tN.png

They want to ban encryption, but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence? Please...

> but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence?

Ah but that would require someone to actually do something, that would be too hard. And I guess for some of the "human rights" crowd, some people have all the benefit of the doubt unless they're caught in the act

Thanks, I couldn't have written it better. @lprd It was all over the news in the German language sphere, which I happen to receive via satellite. (German and Austrian news). I don't have links at the ready but you're able to find them with a little google-fu (or similar search engine).

I remind the readers about the upload filters "guidelines" and other internet censorship "guidelines". The EU is not a democracy, it's a corrupt rule of a few political elites. And they want to spy on us. First they went the NSA route, and when that blew up because of Edward Snowden, now they want their own NSA.

In which democracy does a parliament elected by the people have 0 rights over a council? And the council has veto power about anything the parliament decides? Is that a democracy? No it's not.

Those are the people who make the rules: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/european-council/members/

It doesn't matter who's in the parliament as they're powerless to decide anything meaningful.

Let no tragedy go unexploited

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