Over the years we’ve covered a lot of attempts by relatively clueless governments and politicians to enact think-of-the-children internet censorship or surveillance legislation, but thereR…

cross-posted from: https://prime8s.xyz/post/17896

The article points out that not even China goes as far as the new French censorship law to embed spyware in webbrowsers. Spoopy

It’s definitely seems to have accelerated under Macron in the past few years though…

I’m not sure if it’s accelerated or if they just don’t hide it anymore, just like corruption. But it’s going to be terrible, will get worse and then 2027 happens, which is most likely going to put LePen or other dumb fuck (proto-)fascists in power (like Darmanin or Macron’s cronies). And they will have a field day with all the shit that has been set up in the past decades.

Maybe a little bit of both! And fuck I hope LePen and her ilk never get anywhere near the presidency, but with the way things are going that seems unlikely. But who knows, things could change before then…

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