Ontimp

China hushed COVID up in it’s early stages while a pandemic could still have been avoided and terrorized its own population with an ultimately unsustainable ‘zero COVID’ strategy.

I have friends in China and the stories they tell from this period are horrifying. The authorities would literally nail your door shut from the outside if one person in your city block was tested positively and many people almost starved in their flats during these absolute lockdowns.

They took it serious alright.

700 explosions this year with the strength of a grenade?! That’s insane

with this attitude certainly, buddy

but seriously, yes it’s scary what is happening around the world right now but that means we as citizens need to organize and resist. This is how every social and moral good that we enjoy today was won. Freedom from oppression is a constant fight and always has been

that defeatist attitude is helping no one and is not how a resilient democracy survives

This is exactly what is going to happen with the fucking chat control of the EU actually enforces it, but for an entire continent. Fuck this shit. Privacy is a human right.

What the others said. If you want a practical example of this working, have a look at eduroam. It’s the joint WiFi of all European universities and I cannot recall that there ever were any privacy issues.