Poor Axel Voss showed everyone how much of a media company whore he is just to get his biggest lifetime achievement taken down by the EU court because those filters could result in censorship (something that literally everybody told the supporters would happen)
The courts very likely will strike something like this down, but the people responsible know this. Court dealings can take years and during this time our privacy gets violated and some kind of profit is made.
And even when this law is declared illegal the existing data will likely be kept, only new collection is stopped (happened in Germany)
I sure hope the courts toss that thing. It would be the single worst violation of peoples privacy since the internet became a thing. It's incredible that lobbyists and police unions have this much impact on policy creation.
All Non-Executive Employees shall participate in a tournament (hereafter referred to as “Battle Royale”) wherein the last standing participant will be eligible to receive a Yearly Bonus, whose content is determined by the Executives in accordance with Section 14.2 of the present Code.
Section 14.4 Battle Royale rules and regulations
The rules and regulations are determined by the Executives in a separate Rulebook. These rules must ensure equality among all participants and the protection of the Company’s interests and public image. They must exclude intentional death, unanesthesied removal of limbs and the diffusion of a recording of or about Battle Royal to parties outside the Company.
If we just elect union organizers and environmental activists to government, along with overrepresentation for minorities and a good balanced list of represented groups total, then there won’t be a problem will there?
To answer that question first we must understand why environmental activists and union organisers are targetted in the first place. Businesses make money polluting, clearing land etc. They also save money exploiting workers through poor workplace safety, terrible working conditions, low pay etc. It would be an impedance to capital to allow such individual in government to pass laws limiting profits.
In our liberal democractic world, money wins, no matter what the will of the people is or what the long term outcomes are, the owning class wins every time. It’s not as if people haven’t tried voting for the right person in the past. In many countries there already exist Labour parties established by workers unions. Despite this, business interests always win. Sometimes they throw a few crumbs at the plebs to appease them but it’s always big business that dominates.
Another example, remember Barack Obama’s election campaign in 2008? Change we can believe in? Then he enters the presidency and bails the banks out during the GFC and continued the war in Iraq. Coca cola hired paramilitaries to kill union organisers in Colombia. Biden campaigned on climate change action and then approved new gas piplines. I can go on and on.
Answering your question is very hard to do in a short reply. There are many books written about the topic. I recommend the following video: youtu.be/fcImfx8tunI?si=FfAJzdCq2qFX2RlI
Also, search the text “vote harder” in lemmygrad, it’s a meme to mock liberals.
Won’t anybody think of the figuratively poor polluting corporations?!
I remember one party passed HR 1 For the People Act through congress for it to die in the senate controlled by the other, but keep talking about how both sides don’t want campaign finance reform.
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