It happens in the US yes, but does it happen in the EU?
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LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are just delaying the vote for another time… Hoping that next time it will fly under the radar and there won’t be a huge backlash of discontent.
If the vote fail, they just wait a year, rename it, and try again.
Same thing happens in the US. Law proposed that people hate, people organize, start a campaign that fights for news airtime, bringing awareness of the dickery about to happen, and then succeed after a hard battle and many many volunteer hours spent.
In 6 months Congress just renames it the “I love kittens” act and sticks it on a must pass bill.
Fighting bullshit laws is exhausting…
match@pawb.social 6 months ago
cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Idk about the EU(there have been cases that were exactly this, an example would be Article 13), but I can say to you, that this devinetively happens in Germany. Our conservatives party wants to pass a law, that would track and save all your online activity(Vorratsdatenspeicherung/ data preservation) to fight “paedophiles and terrorists” they bring it up once in a while, even tho, our federal court already said, that its illegal.
d00ery@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As much I like the EU, politicians are politicians …
henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Happy cake day!
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hungary will take the EU presidency, they just name it “child protection” and will smear everyone as a pedophile who objects it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t be surprise if it reappears as an attachment to a fishing quota law or a law defining sizes for underwear…
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sounds very Putin.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Actually, this is a common occurance in the US and EU. One of the previous, court-captured laws actually was riding with fishing quota regulations.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah, Putin doesn’t have to hide anything because nobody is allowed to object to any crazy laws he invents.