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EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship. Standing firmly behind its belief that filtering the uploads is the way to go, the Presidency has worked hard in order to make the proposal for the new copyright Directive even more harmful than the Commission's original proposal, and pushing it further into the realms of illegality. According to the leaked document, the text suggests two options for each of the two most controversial proposals: the so-called "link tax" or ancillary copyright and the upload filter.
Nope. EU expected that everyone attempting to cross the border will try to do so at a border crossing - you know, like in a civilized world. And the numbers attempting to cross the border somewhere else would be in range of hundreds or thousands per year, not millions. There is an option how to stop people crossing the border in the fields or in the woods. Look up Iron Curtain to see what it would look like. Fences, barbed wires, minefields, dogs, patrols with automatic guns shooting without warning ... it isn't pretty. I know that, because live on the other side. EU though that we, as civilization, have moved pass that. They were wrong, but I can't really blame them.
EU did not cause that. You could claim that soldiers, from some member states, took part in some activity that caused that. But EU? No. The influx happens because some parts of the world were turned into a shithole while at the same time EU represents much nicer place to live just a few thousands kilometers away. We can talk about why those places were turned into a shithole, but EU never said it has "strategic interest" in Middle East. EU never sent troops there in the name of "national security". That was some other country.