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Still flabbergasted how effective the lobbying circles around Thorn have been in recent years. I wish no less than this law getting sent to Spam and Ylva Johansson, the accountable EU commissioner, to be forced to step back.

The EU legislator Martin Sonneborn, member of the German satirist party "Die Partei", is proven he was right when in beginning of the legislature he just enumerated all the criminal and semi-criminal acts of several members of the current EU commission. Led by von der Leyen who also has a horrible track record in German politics. "Europa nicht den Laien überlassen"

It's actually not funny anymore because those people are destroying everything.

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Now now, millionaires need hobbies too. They can't swing for the outer edges of the atmosphere so decimating privacy on the Internet will have to do I guess. Ashton's urge to protect the children apparently trumps the privacy of 450 million EU citizens and you would think he'd be able to extend some of that zeal to adult victims of abuse as well but going by his letter to the jury on behalf of Danny Masterson, you'd be wrong.

From my understanding, Johansson is also the Commissioner who, after it coming to light that the Europol had had a little too much fun mass collecting data and gleefully violating EU citizens' privacy rights, stepped into action that resulted in an effort to pass a new law that retroactively made everything the Europol did legal.

> enumerated all the criminal and semi-criminal acts of several members of the current EU commission

any chance anyone can link or give some suggestions of search terms to try to find this?

That's all I can give you right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc-elFcs96Y

It's the 1,5min speech where Sonneborn enumerated some cases, unfortunately in German. AFAIR when he held it, I researched a couple of names and issues he mentioned that didn't look too polemic. In general, he (and his team) is doing what I'd call "trustworthy research" packed up into satire.

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