Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is exactly the dumb shit take from y2k.

  I Still hear people go on about how “it was supposed to be this big thing and then nothing happened! Smart people are so dumb!”

  Yeah nothing happened because a lot of smart people worked very hard to fix the goddamn problem, you fucking shitwaffle.

  Here? “You dum dums got so worked up thinking it would pass and then it didn’t, so the freak out was for nothing!” yeah it didn’t pass because a lot of Europeans got very upset about their governments trying to spy on them harder than ever.

  I’m not European, so I can’t say how people talked about it openly on the metro with random strangers, but online? People were vocal and pissed. A PROPER government (lol can we have some of that functioning democracy please) listens to its people. This was them listening to the people.

  The people’s reaction was appropriate, and necessary. And shouldn’t be lessened just because “lol you guys got so propaganda’d and it was obviously never gonna happen and I knew cause I’m so smart” is quite the take on things.

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  • ashughes@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It reminds me of when climate hoaxers claim the hole in the ozone layer shrinking proves those campaigning to fix it were just fearmongering.

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    • neatchee@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I work on software security (not it/infosec) and deal with this constantly. Bad stuff didn’t happen so we can scale back security, right? No, shit for brains, either the bad stuff didn’t happen because we prevented it, or the bad stuff just hasn’t happened yet because the vulnerability wasn’t discovered, or worse still, the bad stuff DID happen and we haven’t been informed yet. Either way, please do not make my job harder.

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      • ashughes@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I can totally empathise. I used to work in QA for a couple different software companies, including around CVEs and security bug bounty programs. One company scaled back their QA department to near nothing, the other eliminated QA altogether, instead relying on devs to QA their own stuff or automation. It’s not going well for either of them.

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    • portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      vaccines also. nobody is getting sick so vaccines must be unneccessary

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• porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That seems like a statement. I’m still lost on how this answers the question

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They answered the second question. The problem is that OP was not actually posing anything coherent.

    They’re alleging some made up media conspiracy that makes no sense and undermines the impact of the media on the outcome.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OP was not actually posing anything coherent

      Yeah, agreed.

      I’m not hugely on board with the comment answering the second question though. For me, it’s a bit too similar to saying that meteorologists lied to us because they said there was a 60% chance of rain and it didn’t happen. In the context of this question its a lot more complicated than that though

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