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by thisiswrong 4504 days ago
Really? Don't you see the Trojan horse here? I tend to feel that this is a European version of FISA 'improvement' act.

Merkel and Holland are politicians of a special kind. Politicians & their intelligence thugs caught in bed conspiring with foreign agencies/corporations against the people they represent. France quietly pushing through military legislation authorizing spying on its citizens [1].

We should not allow governments to have any more control over the internet. Look how much damage has already been done. Instead we need to build decentralized systems [2] and mesh networks [3] to route around censorship and government/corporate control.

[1] http://www.examiner.com/article/france-overtakes-nsa-spying-... [2] http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-cen... [3] http://openlibernet.org/