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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
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Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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[–] 64 points 2 years ago (13 children)

There are more parties who defend internet privacy then just the pirate party. Won't matter much tho with the current rightwing majority.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    There are ongoing efforts to render end-to-end encryption illegal in Europe as we speak.

    I can't imagine how you stop all end to end encryption across a continent while you're exiting the continent-wide governing body.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Who's exiting? They will just ban any non-compliant messaging app

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They whom? Is every country going to have it's own national firewall, complete with highly sophisticated SMS-only encryption detecting service?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Last I checked they didn't have the majority though?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

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