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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s also this article from yesterday: Austria legalises state spyware amidst strong opposition

i wonder what changed. these regulations are certainly a threat. they justified it with the “threat of (islamistic) terrorism”, though i don’t know what’s really going on there.

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not_amm@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean, Mexico has never been a beacon of privacy or regulations (just for super specific technologies that were implemented first, mostly banking ones), but the government has also been pushing weird changes to how they handle surveillance and personal identifications, giving more power to the authorities while they’re exempt for most of the transparency laws (everything they do, even public infrastructure is managed as some kind of ‘state secret’).

I am scared.

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plyth@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Big war in 2027

feddit.org/post/16373509

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- gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What’s really worrying me is this:
  
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  i.e. wars are waged because somebody is bored
  
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  - plyth@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lame, not boring. Some people believe in war.
    
    Supposedly this time it was pride that has prevented peace, I would say on both sides.
    
    With Russia on Nato’s side, there would be another Eight-Nation Alliance and China would be split, however ethical that would be.
    
    Btw, Ex-Nato head George Robertson said Putin wanted to join alliance in the early 2000s but did not want to wait in line with ‘countries that don’t matter’
    
    Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
    
    George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary who led Nato between 1999 and 2003, said Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of western Europe. “They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time,” he said […]
    
    feddit.org/post/16410454/8030302
    
    I think at the deepest level the elite still believes in the Iliad and they want this war.
    
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  - iglou@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    As funny as the comic is, I am convinced that it will never get to that point, because an asshole with a thirst for power will always exist and be stronger than a bored asshole. Therefore war will keep, as it has always been, be for power.
    
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