According to a recently published article in the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the EU executive launched last month a micro-targeting campaign to push its proposal in the countries that did not support the text in the EU Council of Ministers.
The campaign was run on X (formerly Twitter). The platform subsequently censored Danny Mekić, the author of the article, without providing an explanation.
The countries concerned are the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Slovenia, Portugal, and the Czech Republic, and the ads have been viewed more than four million times. According to Mekić, they showed “shocking images of young girls alongside sinister-looking men” with “ominous music".
As I reiterate, the only thing this law will achieve is autocrats spy on journalists.
Amen. People who put forward the “we should have nothing to hide” argument forget that journalism and whistle-blowing need secrecy, too.
Total transparency is for the government, not the people.
Gonna be real fun when companies can’t securely communicate about industry secrets, either. Or therapists and doctors have their communications with patients leaked.
Like holy shit this whole thing is so fucking backwards.
Well, it’ll be even funnier when Anonymous starts disclosing politicians’ communications with their lovers.