cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37443248
Answer
Question no. 1425 (General part) from the Danish Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee:
“Will the minister elaborate on the minister’s statement to TV2 on the 21st?”
August 2024, where the minister says: "We have to break with the totally mistaken notion that it is every man’s freedom to communicate on encrypted messaging services
(…)”?”
Answer:
We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely is used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples on how criminal gangs recruit completely through encrypted platforms young people to commit, among other things, serious crimes against persons. It is an expression of a cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.
We therefore need to look at how we can overcome this problem. Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we from the authorities can do. It must not be the case that the criminals can hide behind encrypted services that authorities cannot access access to.
Therefore, we, as a government, will also strengthen the police’s capabilities in the area of decryption, of course under appropriate legal guarantees, as is also the case today. In addition, the Ministry of Justice has The Criminal Justice Committee has just started working on a terms of reference that will look at the challenges that technological developments present to the police investigation, including the use of encrypted messaging services.
I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards a strengthened regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms.
For example, the European Commission has proposed a new Regulation on rules for preventing and combating sexual abuse of children. The proposed regulation contains rules on obligations for certain online services to minimize the risk of their services being misused for online child sexual abuse, and the services can, if necessary, be required to track down, report, remove and block access to material showing sexual abuse of children.
It’s taken only about 35 years for the “free” countries of Europe to adopt the same mindset that the Eastern Bloc used to have. In large parts of Germany, for example, people can still remember how it was when you could expect your government to listen in on any and every private conversation. It wasn’t good.
No, it was god. You must be misremembering in your old age :P
At least everyone was well fed and clothed
Goddammit, I thought you were being sarcastic before I saw your replies
Afraid not: The USSR had all sorts of food supply issues and even intentionally starved people.
how many people have you talked to from soviet states? because food insecurity was a serious problem in the highly stratified authoritarian eastern bloc. yes, capitalism kills, but if you understand capitalism to be a system of controlling the workers by having a small cabal owning everything you start to realize the eastern bloc was capitalist as hell
You could even buy a car if you were prepared to wait 10 years for it.
Either you forgot 8 years, or the party owes you a favour.
You could also get a landline real fast if they had a vested interest in bugging your home.
Car? Why do you need a car if you can easily get everywhere by a tram
Yes, the famous communist trams in the villages and smaller cities. Somehow my parents and grandparents never told me about those, but had enough stories about how people waited for cars.
Now without sarcasm: public transport was something that was heavily invested in in many socialist countries, yes. And that was a good thing. But that doesn’t change that a lot of people still wanted to have a car to get outside the cities or be more independent from PT and it’s time tables in general.
Why would you need to go somewhere outside of the timetables of public transport, all work, government and party events are planned around those. If you leave your home at other times you must have bad intentions!
The only thing that never ran out was Vodka and Korn. Folks had to wait in line for anything and everything. What a great time it was.
Alas! Now we only need to wait for salary