Please give examples of how the authoritarian, repressive, conformity-demanding CCP is less awful and soul destroying than Western democracy, as flawed as it is.
With a mechanism like this, this probably will increase further, apart of course for the unjust violation of privacy and even dignity. This is a law that contradicts the constitution very directly.
Also, this is policy that was not brought through democracy. It was created by European Commissioners that only have a very low democratic legitimacy for far reaching policies like this.
It would be a disaster for the EU and all its citizens if this comes through and everyone will loose.
Hint: the former - hundreds of thousands, the latter - zero
But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued.
I hate bashing the West all the time, but come on, we aren’t the good guys in the world. And it’s time we own up to who we are. I have ffs. And I do wonder if the world would have been a more peaceful place if we collectively had more soul.
> Mao's policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.
I guess according to you killing your own people shouldn't be counted.
Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own freedom?
But they never had the chance to oppose it. We do. And so who are the real dummies.
With how popular Trump is in the states, that makes me think dictatorship is just around the corner. Settling scores is coming.
Literally soul destroying. As in life destroying.
Meta data kills people. Now it’s moving way further than meta data..
not other countless nations that have been enslaved, colonized, invaded, subjugated, stripped in the name of democracy and religion.
Russia, CCP etc are horrible too - but let us not forget history.
The Global South Remembers.