EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38205743
Originally, a Pirateparty member published it yesterday.
More here:
Result: Scolding, "Naughty EU, very bed don't do it again"
Seriously where are the French in all this, I thought you're guys whole thing was rioting. I mean last time someone tried to do something like this in Europe there was quite a significant resistance.
Yet they totally fail to realize that the rest of the continent doesn't always think like them. That some countries will never accept a majority vote, that some others just take the EU for it currently is: an economic free exchange zone with democratic requirement. Still today, for a french commoner, the solution the contradictions of EU, in social, economic or strategic matters is always more europe and be damn if you don't.
Would seem like that’s not entirely accurate: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-05/france-s-...
Le Pen is very much against the EU and she seems to be quite popular.
> fighting against the super powers.
France is basically non existent in the ukranian conflict.
And it’s almost certainly not her anti-EU position that gives Le Pen her popularity
To be fair, when i'd say it's naive to vote for Le Pen, i think it's naive to vote for any candidate except maybe for Melenchon who's still on the center of the political spectrum. Otherwise, whether it's Hollande (who was elected with "finance is our enemy" then named Macron the banker as minister) or Macron (who was only elected due to looking less worse than Le Pen but ends up having exactly the same racist/capitalist policies) there's really noone on the political spectrum to propose "progressive" policies and actual implement them. I guess that's something we french people have in common with the US which has a very similar political system and is just as a corrupt and genocidal.
Isn't this because the EU designed to keep France strong, but keep Germany weak?
But seriously, there is no grand design. The EU is the result of 60 years of compromises between larger and larger groups of countries which understand that, alone, they count for nothing in the age of continent-sized superpowers.
But it’s been this way for the past decade now.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/german-economic-weakn...
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/is-a-strong-france-and-a...
It’ll get even worse once Germany’s population collapses since their populace has largely rejected immigration to keep their working adult numbers up
I don't have a dog in this fight, TBH I don't even think it's a fight - the two countries fundamentally need each other.
The issue with the articles (I can find more from earlier years) is that they’ve been saying the same thing using a variety short term rationale for decades.
imo The EU in general and even internally within Germany itself has fears of a resurgent Germany given its past, which makes sense
https://carnegieeurope.eu/2014/03/14/foundations-of-german-p...
I think I got the main idea from Peter Zeihan, but I can’t seem to find anything with Google. Need a better search engine
When German reunification was being discussed, right after the Wall fell, other European governments (France, Italy, UK) agreed not to oppose it in exchange for German commitment to the European Economic Community (as it was then called) and to adopt the common currency that was then being designed (the ECU was still a virtual currency). This was seen as "straight jacketing" Germany, forcing it to share its economic fortunes with the whole continent, impeding a resurgence of all-out competition with France, and hence ensuring peace. This has been reported by then-leaders who were literally in the room with Helmut Kohl as things were agreed: they called it "reunification (in exchange) for peace".
This approach has fundamentally worked: Germany doesn't, and cannot, see itself in any future that does not involve the EU, and them adopting the Euro ensured its short-term success. It did, however, work a bit too well for the German economy, which now benefits from a large market where other players cannot fix trade imbalances with currency devaluation. That is a structural advantage that they will enjoy for a very long time (possibly forever), enshrining their role as the biggest economy in the bloc. I don't see this changing anytime soon, as long as the Euro is around.
Yeah, that's what people call a "stereotype".
(Also, the last mass protests were about the Israel invasion of Gaza, if you're wondering.)
There ought to be a requirement that lawmakers be able to demonstrate skills in precalculus. You could probably explain most of it to a smart ten year old and have them see the problem.
The average human is ignorant of almost everything. So why then do we select a tiny number of people to make laws concerning everything?
A set of people are presented with evidence and become knowledgeable of the matter in hand.
The current system has politicans not even reading the bills they are voting on, let alone any attempt to understand them.
I’d like legislation by sortition, but only if the laws can actually be made simple enough for normal people to follow them. If that can’t be done, it’s very easy to pull wool over people’s eyes in either direction, getting them to pass bad laws they don’t understand and to refuse to pass good laws they don’t understand.
There is no actual problem. Politicians see problems where they don’t exist.
If you did nothing wrong to "the people", you have nothing to fear.
The problem is, that when talking about advance technology plus appealing to emotions ("think of the children!"), average joe is pretty stupid too, and half of population is even stupider than that.
Also just tell your doctor not to worry it is protected by NFTs. /s
Even if a politician isn't knowledgable they have staff (look up the staff sizes of some powerful US senators) who can get experts on the phone.
The problem is that what the populace wants is not a parallel incentive with what the politicians and their paymasters want. Banning e2ee, the disneyfication of the internet, it's all old power games with a digital twist, can't let ordinary people have force amplifiers like technology because they might actually carve some power away from them.
You'll realize most of it isn't stupidity, it's intentional.
If any state requires encryption is only done in a way that allows the state to pierce encryption, that means there is a state that can pierce the encryption. If your agencies can pierce it, agencies of other governments can do it to you, personally, Mr. President. They can find your successor’s skeletons in the closet, Mrs. Prime Minister, and blackmail him or her.
And state intelligence appears to have already been used for enrichment of private corporation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns
Leading to a recommendation that all residents of EU member states use encryption for all communications: https://web.archive.org/web/20131226152235if_/http://www.eur...