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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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There are more parties who defend internet privacy then just the pirate party. Won't matter much tho with the current rightwing majority.
They have been very active fighting the chat control proposals that keep coming, haven't really seen others being so active about it besides them. This is really bad.
Is the incoming majority particularly anti-piracy? I thought they were more fixated on leaving the EU, gutting the "woke" public sector, and rounding up all the immigrants for deportation.
Just to make things clear, the pirate party isn't directly related to piracy. There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak. Dark times are coming
I can't imagine how you stop all end to end encryption across a continent while you're exiting the continent-wide governing body.
Who's exiting? They will just ban any non-compliant messaging app
They whom? Is every country going to have it's own national firewall, complete with highly sophisticated SMS-only encryption detecting service?
The EU plans to do so and as such every member must follow it.
And once encryption is criminalized, it can be trivially detected - or at least assumed to be encrypted if your message is sufficiently random.
A bunch of these alt-right parties are anti-EU
Doesn't change anything at all
By law, simply making it illegal as is being worked on.
Last I checked they didn't have the majority though?
Technically... maybe. Here's a calculator, EPP+ECR+ID+a chunk of the non-attached and non-assigned might make it over the 50% mark, and then there's renew which has neoliberals in it.
But that's not coalition material as the EPP is not eurosceptic, also, that coalition would reach so far right that a good chunk of the EPP would definitely not be on board with it. The populists might also be opposed on reasons of preferring stoking anti-Brussels sentiment over surveillance, and there's plenty of opportunity for rifts, like the RN saying "The AfD is in favour so we're opposed".
Do note than in the EP factions have fuck all when it comes to faction discipline. There's no whip, all there is is plenty of negotiating.