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EU Commission tried to influence political views in the Netherlands. In the contentious fight over the heavily criticized chat control regulation (a proposed EU law that could undermine all encrypted online communication to allow authorities to read online chats), the European Commission has identified the Netherlands as a Member State that they wanted to influence politically. In an attempt to "flip" the views in the Netherlands, the Commission went to X/Twitter and made postings indirectly promoting this Regulation.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we put it in our constitution that it is illegal to spy in people's private life?

[–] Leftysweet@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think that can be possible

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's not.

My country was aligned to vote in favor of the regulation, while, most conveniently, our elected representatives forgot in our constituion it is establish the right to privacy of correspondence and home, which simplified just means it is constitutionally established that no one can have their home, correspondence or other private comunications violated unless deemed legitimate by a court of law, following a demonstrated suspition of criminal acts.

This behaviour is shameful and I can only understand it as an attempt to force a constitutional revision.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would the Commission kindly fuck off with this? Who is this sooo important to anyhow?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The factual answer when looking at past reports about money flow and the people involved is:

  • Law enforcement and Spy agencies
  • Dictators (Orban etc)
  • AI companies that want to sell the filtering software that would be used to sift through our data
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Dictators (Orban etc)

OrbΓ‘n is already spying on everyone, laws don't matter to him.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds highly illegal. Can they get impeached for things like this?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

They are appointed by country governments, so in theory, yes, practically, no. It would be more like being recalled.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is good precedent for when Elon will try to "flip" European politics as well. To bad that the European Commission might be the one responsible to enforce it.