Quote from: Free Market Capitalist on Today at 03:09:26 PM

Well, unsurprisingly, the EU has gone even further and now does not want to limit itself to social media; it wants to scan all private messages. They hate privacy; they hate anything that can escape state control.

Except for their own messages, of course. Like those Pfizer SMSes Von der Leyen has been hiding for years.

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In theory, it is done to protect children from potential abusers

As I wrote before:

Quote from: LoyceV on August 07, 2025, 11:09:48 AM

What amazes me most is that it's exclusively used for more surveillance, and not for more border security.

It's obvious it's just an excuse.

Some great quotes (shortened):

Quote from: Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Bureaucracy is undoubtedly the weapon and sign of a despotic government, inasmuch as it gives whatever government it serves, despotic power.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.