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> Europe continues to push policies like Chat Control and attempt to backdoor/ban E2E encryption

Some politicians in Europe push for that, until now it has been refused by the others. Unlike in the US, there are many different parties in European countries. And Europe is made of politicians from many parties from many countries.

> The worst parts of Patriot Act were undone in 2015

So the NSA doesn't do any kind of domestic surveillance anymore, is that what you believe?

> the "F" in FISA stands for "Foreign". [...] Europe continues to push policies [...] for domestic surveillance.

So if it's surveilling allies, it's all good in your opinion?

> The present day and trajectory in Europe is far far more grim than in the US.

"Far far"? Do you even realise that Europe is not one single country? The US elected Trump, twice.

parent palata 25 days ago

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