Comment by jasonvorhe
2 days ago
Good old salami tactics still work. Same goes for going way over target to then settle for your actual goal.
Good old democracy at work.
2 days ago
Good old salami tactics still work. Same goes for going way over target to then settle for your actual goal.
Good old democracy at work.
Democracy worked well here. The executive wanted more power (once again), the parliament refused, twice, despite _a lot_ of lobbying and pressure from the executive branch. Good job to the tech industry for counterlobbying (i'm not saying that often i swear), good job us for mobilizing, and also la quadrature and other NGO privacy watchdog for mobilization that allowed the EU parliement to resist somewhat, and forced a compromise that will any overreach tentative in the hand of judges.
What europe needs to be careful of is that the EUCJ keep its power. I _know_ people on both side of the political spectrum dislike judges (because they defend the status quo for the left, and the rule of law for the right) but multiple time this past 3 years i've seen mediatic assaults on EUCJ and ECHR that expend their political power again and again and again. We have to keep executive power from limiting judiciary power. Already executive branches are powering through legislative in a lot of country (France, UK, US, and EU which isn't a country but have similar institution), we absolutely have to keep the third branch as a check against government overreach.
Let's see how democracy protects us from the digital id proposal. It probably won't.
Democracy is actually at work here: it's restraining somewhat the reptile-brained politicians behind chat control.