The real question, for me as a EU-citizen, should be: when will the so democratic EU decide they want to do the exact same as the not so democratic USA?
It’s interesting to see how quickly and easily the ‘democracy’ and the ‘we care about our population rights’ mask is dropping revealing what Georges Bernanos was writing in 1945: be it ‘the democratic West’ and the (back then) communist Russia, it doesn’t matter much the ideological differences as the system itself (the state/government, the society) will try it’s hardest to become a dictatorship whose power no one can escape. How? By multiplying rules and laws in order to make it impossible to do anything without them knowing it. Even peeing, would I be tempted to add.
United States of China? They made fun of China but secretly wanted to be better than them at surveillance.
And given they’re trying to kill Section 230 and censor the web in general, it’s only a matter of time before this applies to citizens as a condition of living here.
The Handmaid’s Tale is looking less like fiction everyday.
There is even provision for demanding DNA from applicants, although there is no indication how this could be provided. The Independent has asked US Customs and Border Protection how it proposes to obtain the genetic material.
What?
