Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal

• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not the way it works in the EU

  Not yet. Because they don’t have the mechanism.

  And it’s not about Sánchez and his government. I don’t think they would do it. But governments change, sooner or later someone else will win elections. Someone who might not agree with criticism.

  And don’t try to convince me “it would never happen in the EU”. We have more than enough examples that eventually every country has a brush with authoritarianism. Even in the EU currently (eg Hungary). Prevention is always better than trying to fix it later.

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  • aka_@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Not yet”

    Spain was a dictatorship until the 70s and transitioned into a democracy without anonymous internet shitposting. The USA was a functioning democracy and transitioned into a shithole with anonymous internet shitposting.

    Anonymous internet shitposting fixes nothing, it only damages the social fabric and pollutes the public discourse. That’s why foreign actors love to weaponize it.

    Being a citizen of a free country comes with responsibilities: paying taxes, voting, expressing your opinions sensibly. Anonymous internet shitposting advances zero democratic values, it’s simply a great channel for conducting international destabilization campaigns.

    It. Fixes. Nothing.

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    • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can you sign that comment with your real name and address to be an example for all of us? Don’t forget to add your phone number.

      We will of course need proof, so attaching a scan of your id would be a step towards It.Fixing.Something.

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      • aka_@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As I said, having a government platform doing the encrypted id check means you would get the encrypted id check and verification, and the government would read your data (as it already does). Don’t try to sell fear.

        And by the way, I’m registered as the owner and resident of my house that has an internet connection with an IP from which I’m writing, paid with my bank account, all of them well known to the government.

        The only difference is you don’t know whether I’m over 18 and a citizen of the EU or a sim on a multisim farm in Vladivostok. And I think that’s not good.

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that shit poster strawman deserves a promotion after how much you abused it.

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      • aka_@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Worry not, they’re getting promoted as we speak. That’s the whole point of it: interested malicious parties and useful idiots.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Literally spain too. That whole Francoist Spain thing only ended in 1975.

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    • aka_@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, and not thanks to the internet.

      You know the things started happening everywhere from 2015 on or so though?

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