What in the fuck. It's a bullshit law that in reality makes encrypted communication illegal and seeks to make europe-wide mass surveillance possible with a BS "think of the children" excuse. Nevermind that criminals will just keep using the then illegal encrypted communication systems because to them it's just one more crime while the rest of us law-abiding citizens lose literally all our rights to private communication.

This law won't protect kids, but it WILL be the first step towards nothing ever being private ever again. Making encryption illegal is such as stupid idea I'm shocked it's even being considered, but hey, the UK brought it up so I guess the rest of us have to deal with this shit now, too.

Political ad-campaigning to push this type of shit should be illegal. Legislation should pass/fail on its own merits alone, not based on how many uninformed fools saw an emotionally manipulative picture on twitter.

Sounds loke there is the need for a ECJ investigation.

Not that long ago, these people would have started worrying about their heads suddenly detaching from their bodies. What the fuck is happening to the world when so few people give a shit about their own freedoms? Privacy is a universal right, but it's been eroded so rapidly over the last ten years. I just can't understand how nobody automatically considers the catastrophic downsides of oppressive laws like this.

I guess the fuckers at the top won.