Post by @phl@mastodon.social

2026-05-08 12:38 UTC

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I'm pretty sure their re-re-re-reattempting to implement chat control, their folding to the US, US Big Tech surveillance companies, and to the AI fomo is much, much more dangerous to our Europe and to our democracy, than the "entitled screeching" of citizens rightfully concerned about the Commission — over which, I repeat, we have no direct control or influence — doing things that go against us as citizens.

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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 12:44

@phl@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu then put in the real work to defeat that obvious evil don't shout at a social media account and smugly declare that you "put in the work"

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@phl@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 12:45

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Sure, it's the elected heads of states, and in the other council the ministers appointed by said elected heads of states, but that's just way too many layers — I don't think we can say we have any say in the matter. Would you say that you, under any US president, have any kind of influence over who your Secretaries are and what they represent? And what they'd represent in an international formation with other Secretaries/Ministers?

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