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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)

submitted 5 months ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is the incoming majority particularly anti-piracy? I thought they were more fixated on leaving the EU, gutting the "woke" public sector, and rounding up all the immigrants for deportation.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just to make things clear, the pirate party isn't directly related to piracy. There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak. Dark times are coming

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak.

I can't imagine how you stop all end to end encryption across a continent while you're exiting the continent-wide governing body.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who's exiting? They will just ban any non-compliant messaging app

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They whom? Is every country going to have it's own national firewall, complete with highly sophisticated SMS-only encryption detecting service?

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The EU plans to do so and as such every member must follow it.

And once encryption is criminalized, it can be trivially detected - or at least assumed to be encrypted if your message is sufficiently random.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The EU plans to do so

A bunch of these alt-right parties are anti-EU

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't change anything at all

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

By law, simply making it illegal as is being worked on.