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Comment by BrenBarn

15 days ago

Let's think about what happened in 2025. Say, January 2025. Say, 20 January 2025.

Do you really believe it's Trump's fault that politicians in the EU are pushing for the end of encryption, mandatory digital ID, and age verifications?

  • never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

    but the same processes that put the orange man there put similar people in other places too

    and similar sentiments led to voters preferring authoritarian measures

  • You left the DMA and GDPR out of that, which makes the entire argument conveniently one-sided.