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EU Exploring Idea of Using Government ID Cards As Mandatory Online Logins (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: Fears that fake online reviews might ruin the consumer market and damage legitimate businesses are making the European Commission consider the idea of forcing all EU citizens to log into online accounts using their government-issued ID cards. Details about these plans can be found in a proposal named "Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market Opportunities and Challenges," announced on May 25, 2016. According to this document, "online platforms should accept credentials issued or recognized by national public authorities, such as electronic or mobile IDs, national identity cards, or bank cards." The reasoning, according to the EU, is that "online ratings and reviews of goods and services are helpful and empowering to consumers, but they need to be trustworthy and free from any bias or manipulation. A prominent example is fake reviews."
In Europe and Canada criticizing the Jews is of no consequence. In fact the Jews have become their standard boogieman to be attacked
The killing of Jews is no problem either - in actual fact, part of the European continent becomes hyper-euphoric every time Jews got murdered
But if you ever dare to criticize the moslems, or Islam, you will get into trouble
BIG TROUBLE !
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Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Every European country was, at one time, some form of totalitarian monarchy. When various European countries broke from that, they went and dabbled with socialist economics and libertine social policy but largely stayed with large overbearing government and massive regulation. They have never actually been free people, which is why they never properly understand Americans and often misinterpret events in the US and American attitudes; Americans HAVE been free and have no memory of life under monarchs.
The American political spectrum is very broad, from those who want almost no government to those who want massive government, those who want nothing to do with the world beyond the national border to those who want no national border. The European political spectrum is very narrow and centered way over on the left somewhere between the totalitarian communists (the with European left) and the totalitarian national socialists (at the European right), with near universal agreement on huge government, nearly unlimited regulations, wealth redistribution, etc and anybody outside that tent automatically rejected as "far right" and "dangerous"
Their terrible dysfunctional history leads them to think that if they move further left they'll become the evil Soviets, if they move right they'll become the evil NAZIs, and if they reduce their massive bureaucrat-heavy elected governments they'll fall back into monarchy. It just never seems to occur to Europeans to actually try small government and ACTUAL FREEDOM.
if the UK, whose history brought them closer to freedom than most in the "old world", and who ultimately gave birth to the Americans (accidentally of course) have any sense left, they will declare their independence and get out of the EU this month thereby saving themselves from this sort of continental totalitarian nightmare. It's truly amazing to see the current generation of spineless and bought-by-multinational-bankers UK leaders claiming that Britain, which although a small island nation, once nearly ruled the world is now incapable of even standing on its own two feet.