A loophole in parliamentary procedure allowed MEPs to extend mass scanning of private communications until 2026 — without a direct vote on the substance of the law.
I don’t want to be bothered with work related stuff either. I understand their want for a vacation, and they should not be blamed
Have you ever heard the phrase, “With great power comes great responsibility”? Yes, it’s from some dumb capeshit, but it’s true. If you want to be elected into a position of such power, then you’re voluntarily signing up for the responsibility, including the responsibility to keep shit like this from happening when you go on vacation.
Vacation is vacation. They have a right to a vacation just like I do. The system should have safeguards in place. I don’t want the elected to have a burnout, just in the same way that I don’t want to have a burnout.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “With great power comes great responsibility”? Yes, it’s from some dumb capeshit, but it’s true. If you want to be elected into a position of such power, then you’re voluntarily signing up for the responsibility, including the responsibility to keep shit like this from happening when you go on vacation.
Vacation is vacation. They have a right to a vacation just like I do. The system should have safeguards in place. I don’t want the elected to have a burnout, just in the same way that I don’t want to have a burnout.
But it doesn’t.
And until it does, the privacy rights of millions of people is more important than a few politicians’ vacation time.
But they knew the ramifications of the job when they accepted it.
Right there should be, but there isn’t, so until there is they need to have someone from their office on the spot to field important stuff like this.