The European Media Freedom Act is meant to protect the press from government overreach. But behind closed doors, a group of EU member states are threatening to block the new law over their demands for a blank check to use spyware for the purposes of “national security”.

  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    What i dont get is why Journalists did not heavily cover the chat surveillance and other plans of the EU and criticise it into the ground.

    Of course if the overreach is normalized for the average citizen it will then be expanded to special groups like journalists, lawyers and doctors.

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      7 months ago

      Because many journalists are dumb and buy the official propaganda on the reasons for the mass surveillance.