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Coincidentally, a "leak" was reported yesterday suggesting EU MP's intend to exempt "confidential" govt info, as well as police, intelligence, and military personnel from Chat Control:

https://www.eureporter.co/business/data/mass-surveillance-da...

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Ahh, we are against violence, except when it is applied to people we don't agree with. We are against surveillance, it is only to be applied to people not in our group. We are for freedom of speech, but only if you agree with us. The list goes on.

I keep wanting to hand out copies of 1984.

In reading your comment, it suddenly dawned on me that 1984 has turned into a how to manual for modern governments, much the way The Prince is misinterpreted today.

People interested in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell might also be interested in "Limes inferior" by Janusz A. Zajdel, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell.

We’re not far off the previous Revolution mentioned in the book.

Perhaps my biggest criticisms of 1984 is that it tends to make the reader fixate on some group of evil conspirators at the top, at the expense of understanding the banality of evil. I think this portrayal sows distrust in real democracy through presumption of evil intent.

I think we as people should move to have the opposite of this, if you're a public official you should have all your comms public, what are they afraid of? If they do nothing wrong then this shouldn't be a problem lol

I've been saying this for years. Glad others are out there with similar thinking.

The more authority you take on, the LESS privacy you should receive. That is how you balance authority.

This!

This information has definitely been available before [1], though some media might have reported it just yesterday.

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-interior-ministers-...

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