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Meet the fascist trying to read everyone's chat messages (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

    When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    SocDem is still capitalist. Capitalist politicians answer to capital.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yep. If you want to escape from surveillance and censorship, you've got to go to a communist country.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The capitalist counties have proven that surveillance and censorship is more effective when you make it so subtle that a majority of their citizens are unaware that it's happening.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    As a dane: The social democratic party in Denmark has changed a lot in the last 10-20 years. It used to be much more left-leaning. Nowadays it's essentially a middle party. They adopted quite a few policies from the right wing (especially on the immigration area), in an attempt to keep the power basically, and it has worked immensely well, in the sense that many, many people have voted for them.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just because the guy is a fucktard, doesnt mean the party is. And the other way around.

    Politics is not a "team sport" and we should not treat it like that.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

    I'm not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I think I swayed too much into a general critic of a way of thinking about politics.

    I still agree with you, when it's a minister.

    It's also worth to note that his party, even though their name, is a middle party now and no longer left.

    There are plenty of parties better for the people than them right now.

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