Me and you, we get that there is a difference. I am not convinced a majority of politicians, especially not German ones, get that.

The AfD is, for all their faults, relatively libertarian when it comes to privacy rights. That might be because they have a lot to hide, but that’s besides the point. It is definitely not because that’s “too right wing” for them.

We have had a push for “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” basically every legislature period which is kind of in the same category of “wtf stop doing that”. Ironically it was the FDP that saved us when the SPD in the last coalition tried to implement that. Not sure the CDU is going to stop Dobrint when he has his go at it.

I don’t see it as a grand departure from current party lines, except for the AfD while the Greens are very ambivalent between their fundi and realo party wings.

It will be harder for the advocates now to explain to the rest of the member states why it should be put back on the agenda.

All it takes is some form of crime that remotely looks like it could have been prevented by client side scanning. Be it child porn, be it terrorism, be it some big drug case. Now that scanning isn’t an exception anymore but generally allowed, the step to “just” forcing everyone to do what the big companies are doing anyways, won’t be as big.

In short: Assuming that they won’t have reasons and pressure to put this topic back on the table seems unlikely to me, considering the amount of resources they have continually put into this already. Especially since Germany seems to shift more and more towards more autoritarian tendencies itself, a few repetitions might be enough to finally topple their resistance

What the fuck is Theseus doing over there?

Something changes: we won’t be having this kind of engagement with the topic every time this exception needs to be renewed. Which means they have resources to allocate towards other goals, like finally making the scanning mandatory.

Frighter is for scareing distance

sarcastic tone “I’d also never put punctuation inside of “sarcastic quotes.” It feels wrong.”

Where is your god now, huh?

Vampire - Lazyboy Empire

Something about this makes it endlessly repeatable to me. Also a few songs from suicide sheep and similar artists. Faded was actually in this list for a long time.

I would unironically buy a gos iPhone. Like not the newest shiniest but older iphones become reasonable pricewise

ICE-Agent: don’t threaten me with a good time

Oh no the clankers are getting frisky

Damn ya caught me

I think that’s more of a Succons razor situation

I lost a little faith I didn’t even know I had left while reading these weird ass definitely crafted messages

That username comment combo made me giggle more than it should’ve

Damnit you beat me by 11 minutes.

I was gonna make a joke about access to the braincellular network

That’s almost certainly a move for inward communication. “See how we strip ourselves of western oppression! These international rules were imposed on us by the west to keep us weak and are used outside their original means to harm us.”

Just wanna sneak in a little thank you for what you’re doing here, discussions like this can be draining

The whales eating plankton are more like water roombas

Is Indian Jones the Bollywood Version that I didn’t know I wanted until this moment?