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Greenland’s prime minister has said “we choose Denmark” before high-stakes talks at the White House as Donald Trump seeks to take control of the Arctic territory.

Amid rising tensions over the US president’s push, Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday told a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, that the island would not be owned or governed by Washington.

“We are now facing a geopolitical crisis. If we have to choose between the US and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark, Nato and the EU,” Nielsen said, adding that the island’s “goal and desire is peaceful dialogue, with a focus on cooperation”.Trump’s pursuit of the island was also a matter of “international law and our right to our own country”, he said.

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[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Chat control doesn't sound very much like respecting citizen's rights

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

So true.

It's scary, it's like all the major developed civilizations are saying

"Look we're all spying on each other because we're definitely planning on fighting so you best either get out of our way or shut up about it."

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 1 week ago

Which part of it? I read the legislation and I think it does respect citizen's rights. Which paragraphs do you find problematic?

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Perhaps the entire idea that the government can spy on all your communications?

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 1 week ago

You have to be talking about some different Chat Control because the one I read doesn't allow anything like that. At least I think it doesn't. Can you point me to the specific part that covers it? Maybe I missed it.

But seriously, I can see you read some scary headlines that have nothing to do with reality. Of course you're not going to read the legislation yourself and hearing it form some random guy on lemmy will not change your mind because you read it on some random blog so it has to be true but for anyone interested, the proposed law specifically says that “the regulation shall not prohibit, make impossible, weaken, circumvent or otherwise undermine cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption, including end-to-end encryption”.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

OK, first off, fuck you and your smug-ass tone.

It seems that last year the legislation was amended and it removed the requirement that providers scan all messages and added the part that you quoted at the end. But it would require age verification which is something else of which I am opposed to the very idea.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/after-years-controversy-eus-chat-control-nears-its-final-hurdle-what-know

[-] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh shit, does that mean Europeans will get shot in the face now too? You know, to control their chatting. Like in the USA, if you say "I'm not mad at you", you get shot in the face.

Yeah, chat control is not great, but is FAR FAR FAR from what's happening in the Fascist States of America.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

It didn't start with people getting shot in the face. Chat control is a big step in that direction.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

You all are fighting on who's riding the biggest turd boat into the sea and you're both making find points :)

The US is putting Nazi slogans on the government speech podiums and trying to annex countries that are too weak to put up a fight.

The EU is trying to remove private communication.

I think the US is a about 11:59 on the doomsday clock, the EU is about 10:45

We're both mostly fucked, the EU has more time to turn around, but that's not likely either.

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