EU governments plan ‘blank cheque’ to spy on journalists
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France, Germany and the Netherlands among governments pushing for an exemption in new EU law which would give states power to monitor journalists’ electronic communications
did not expect this from the EU.
youd be surprised at how shady and scummy the EU actually is
they might not be as scummy snd shady as most comparable entities but theyre still a neolib government
Not arguing about scumminess - but this isn't an action of the EU, but of individual EU member states (i.e. Several governments and their representatives). The criticism here should be targeted at the invidiual parties that are spearheading this.
Some of my favourite EU fuckups are: Qatargate, especially if you listen to her speeches praising Qatar prior to the corruption investigation. And then that other time a project to create an ai tool that would screen refugees over the Internet to pickup on "microexpressions" of the individual to give them a trustworthiness score received millions of EU taxpayer money (but luckily wasn't implemented). The EU carbon market is... Yeah. Or the shortsighted fund supposed to battle root causes of migration. And then there's the permeating mess the Hungarian government is causing in the mostly uninamious-based processes.
USA has been treated by Europeans (probably mostly just US Citizens that WISH they were european actually) as though they respect their citizens and civil rights to some fairy tail degree
It’s like… no bitch they just have better healthcare and are friendlier to bicyclists, these European countries are just as shitty about almost everything else.
Not trying to start a fight with any citizens of Europe - just always funny how people have this idea that the USA is the only corrupt western government and are so shocked to see that it’s kinda the same everywhere.