Microblog Memes

I always think of that scene from the simpsons where smithers and burns walk through 8 layers of security doors with various identification techniques, and then in the final room there's an old screen door hanging off its hinges to the outside.

Agreed - This feels like "we will keep voting on this until we pass it"

Or just do what we are doing, but in reverse!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/citizen-petition-referendum-increase-9.7021761

We can't even take out our own fascists.....

Said the American who can't take Trump out.

They have been taken out over and over.

But democracy demands we let them try.

Stones and glass houses here a little bit mate

I think we are too far gone... If you can't do it with all the free weapons you have on hand, how do you think it's going to work in Europe? America and the rest of the world is equally screwed. Maybe some 3rd world countries will be fine as they have greater issues than "some" privacy concerns:)

They just keep renaming it and slightly changing it so it's never exactly the same.

The same thing? I thinks so

But nothing stopping you to charge it a tiny bit and try again

If the US has such a rule then it's not effective. Look at how many times the GOP tried to kill the ACA (or at least pass pointless statements denouncing it). It was at least into the 50s. Probably more than that. Instead of trying to pass useful, practical laws, politicians played the same theatrics over and over again.

did they officially vote on it? Often they try to find their majority before the vote and if they dont get it, they wont vote on it.

I agree completely other than one important detail: while they sell themselves as center left, absolute center, and center right, the Danish government parties are in reality authoritarian right wing parties and have been for at least a decade and a half.

Especially when it comes to immigration policy and issues of state control/overreach like Chat Control.

They did come up with this particular iteration, but the whole idea is inherited from previous EU administrations. It has been a long time goal of the EU to implement something like this. Doesn't excuse the Danish premiership though, as they could just as easily have dropped it, especially after the recent rejection, instead of adamantly keep changing the proposition until something sticks.

Very on par for Mette Frederiksen and her government in Denmark as well: Arrogant and authoritarian, seemingly with no care for the increasingly bad polling of which something like this doesn't help.

Even if it is does not seem very promising, I think it is still important to point out to your representatives once again that their plans do not reflect the will of the people and that it is unacceptable to keep trying to push them through anyway.

As long as they continue to try, against all reason, to push this plan through without consulting the citizens, the population should express its rejection.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid there is not much else we can do other than inform our friends about this important issue and not let our representatives get away with it without protest.

Email templates and the addresses of representatives in all EU countries can be found here: Fight Chat Control

Educate your friends and relatives and write your representatives at every level. It’s only a small difference but it’s something.

there isn't really anything stating that posts should be memes, the name is a bit misleading because it came from whitepeopletwitter, which people wanted to make more general. Any microblog post is theoretically allowed as long as it follows the rules in the sidebar. This arguably counts as brand promotion/guerilla marketing, although I think the message is divorced enough from the brand to be acceptable.