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Attached: 1 image Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services." Share your thoughts via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/, or to [email protected] directly. Source: https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    94·
    10 hours ago

    apparently nominally a member of a social-democratic party

    When I was younger, I believed that social-democratic parties were better than conservative ones on matters of civil liberties. I stand corrected on that.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      41·
      3 hours ago

      SocDem is still capitalist. Capitalist politicians answer to capital.

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
      21·
      4 hours ago

      Just because the guy is a fucktard, doesnt mean the party is. And the other way around.

      Politics is not a “team sport” and we should not treat it like that.

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        4 hours ago

        Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

        I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

        • themurphy@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah, I think I swayed too much into a general critic of a way of thinking about politics.

          I still agree with you, when it’s a minister.

          It’s also worth to note that his party, even though their name, is a middle party now and no longer left.

          There are plenty of parties better for the people than them right now.

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
      10·
      8 hours ago

      This is why it’s so important to vote based on policy, not party names or “teams”. Parties can name themselves whatever they want (within reason) and they evolve and change as well. Canada right now is a good example. The current Liberal party is basically the Conservative party of the 90s. Just look at policy and leave the brand out of it.

      Never forget, North Korea calls itself The Democratic Republic of North Korea. The Nazis were called The National Socialist German Worker’s Party. Words have meaning, even when they don’t.