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		331c8c71 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'sp... 'Course it's hypocritical. What is quickly condemned as "bad" in a foreign context is often not held to the same standard when it appears within Europe.

armada651 7 months ago [–]

That's not true, most of those condemnations come from the European parliament which also regularly condemns those practices within Europe:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230505IP...

https://www.unwantedwitness.org/european-parliament-condemns...

The problem is that the European commission loves surveillance and suppressing free speech and they hold the actual real power in the EU.

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