cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16374600
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
Oh well. I did what I could and cast my vote for them. Don’t regret it, though, for my first time voting.
This is so fucked up.
We need to use other methods than voting. We are so close to a complete surveillance dystopia in Europe. And it is already really bad.
Don’t worry
In Italy we have voted for Ilaria Salis and she has heavy hands that tend to go on the fascists faces lol
I dream of a royal rumble in the parliament
#ChatControl and #EUGoingDark . None of this has even been discussed in the run-up to this election.
Increasingly it does look like Europe really is going dark.
Right-wing populism is on the rise through the whole continent, it‘s scary. I can feel it here in switzerland and can see it in neighbouring countries like france and germany.
Here in Finland the Left Alliance increased votes by 10% while True Finns(hard right party) decreased support massively across the whole country. Only one true finn got voted in.
So at least we got that going for us…
The Swedish Social Democratic party (supposedly staunchly left wing) are the ones behind Chat Control 2.0. So just voting for left is not a guarantee we actually get sane MPs in the parliament.
I felt my vote needed to be aginst the extreme right. The pirate party is more of a secondary needs party, once primary beeds have been taken care of. Digital freedom isn’t worth much if you’re living under the threat of fascism regarless.
