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> [...] this generation of old and frightful people finally resigns [...]

If you thought that replacing these people with the generation than invented "trigger warnings", and demands removal/cancelling of anything remotely uncomfortable would be the end of mass surveillance, then you're going to be disappointed. I think we will get much more instead.

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This meme needs to die of old people not understanding tech and privacy ramifications. Privacy is a concern for all generations, and you only have to look at history to know privacy’s importance. (Stasi anyone?). Branding all older generations as not ‘with it’ is ageist and counterproductive. If any generation is more concerned about digital rights and freedom it’s the older generation. Kids these days are feeding from the trough of surveillance capitalism and are sleepwalking into an Orwellian nightmare.

Saying that about young people is also ageism

The real battle is class, the capital owning class wants to control the working class and that's why we get these laws

They spread propaganda and write legislation through think tanks in the US, I can only assume there are similar mechanisms in the EU

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