Harm democracy? People in EU get arrested for tweets. I'm glad the US is trying to do something about it.

> Germany Launches Nationwide Raid to Arrest Those Who Insulted Politicians, Or Spread ‘Hate Speech’ Online

> Federal Criminal Police (BKA) conducted raids across Germany targeting 170 people accused of online hate speech or political insults.

> The raids were based on Paragraph 188 of Germany’s Criminal Code, which criminalizes certain types of political criticism and hate speech.

> Devices like phones and computers were seized in multiple homes during the raids.

> Similar “days of action” are increasingly frequent, with over 10,700 such cases recorded last year—four times higher than in 2021.

> Cases include a pensioner raided for calling a minister an “idiot” and a 14-year-old raided for posting a banned hashtag on TikTok.

https://tfppwire.com/germany-launches-nationwide-raid-to-arr...

EU countries will soon join the club.

"VPN services may soon become a new target of EU lawmakers after being deemed a "key challenge"" https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-servi...

Have 1.8 million people been arrested? If not it's clear the detection got it wrong.

EU ministers want to exempt themselves

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-wan...

> the spread of propaganda, which is a genuine issue here

Now we are policing speech?

Fingers crossed. The EU has outlived its usefulness and is a net negative to Europe of today.

There has not been a single article about this in my country which is "for" the proposal despite me writing to all major news outlets. My only conclusion is that they are complicit.

The legislation would have to be proposed by the very same people who are pushing for this. It's not going to happen.

Worse of all they will not put it to vote if they know it will not pass. This way they can keep working on it (paid by our taxes ofc) and try again and again.

EU is marching towards total dystopia worse than China. Based on the other comment there are even people who applaud the effort. It's absolutely sickening. Of course EU bureaucrats will then be in total disbelieve that parties who want to dismantle the EU are gaining support.