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Why are so many European countries getting worried about encryption and/or age verification? Why now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone's basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

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[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

More than one European prime minister spoke loudly about a coming war. Whether they mean it or it's an excuse to do fascist stuff is another topic. There's also the Russian sabotage going on.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the Russian sabotage going on

What happened?

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The baltic pipe, the sea cables, the train stop in poland are the bigger ones but smaller acts of sabotage where the perpetrator has been found to be working for Russia are common. Last month some Colombian dude lit two warehouses on fire and has been found to be working for Russian intelligence.

It may be just government propaganda or it may be real, we'll never know, but it's the agenda pushed to the media.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

It's certainly the agenda being pushed.

Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.^1

But after investigations were carried out by Poland's Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.^1

I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they've lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[Including the 2016 US election meddling and DNC email hack, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, MH17, the Mariupol theater bombing, the Bucha massacre, and the Nordstream pipeline.] I don't discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.