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by xg15 16 days ago
I mean... Yes? People and data about people are two different things - as is who is doing the "movement" in the first place.

Would you also support free movement of all the valuables in your bank vault?
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politician 16 days ago
This doesn't make sense as a rebuttal.

Article is OK with people moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe. Article is NOT OK with data moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe.

It's stupid. It's quintessential luxury belief thinking.

The article supposes that there exists people that fear their data being misused but don't fear their taxes being misused on welfare for a random population of benefit seekers.

The article would have been better without the self-own "problematic baggage" language.

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xg15 16 days ago
Because you have so much insight how your taxes are used otherwise. But welfare, that's where you draw the line...

Just ask yourself who would be doing the misuse to see that this comparison makes no sense.

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