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EU is planning a new mass surveillance law that includes mandating data retention, built-in backdoors, sanctioning non-compliant services and is asking you for feedback: Impact assessment on retention (ec.europa.eu)
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[โ€“] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course fascists are bad and can go fuck themselves - but not all "right wingers" are fascists.

Socialist regimes are inherently fond of surveillance. Indiviuals can have any given stance on it. Politically involved people - minus fascists - tend to have stances against surveillance and for data protection.

There's a lot of nuance inbetween "capitalist" and "anti-capitalist". I'm not here to defend capitalism but this black-and-white worldview often held by self-proclaimed left-wingers is offputting to the very masses that they claim to represent to such a degree that the working class would rather shoot themselves in the foot by voting for fascists and fascist-adjacents rather than support "crazy leftists". In the modern age it's an ideology of a lot of talk and studies and very few results.