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It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country?


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http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2481

An anonymous reader asks: "A few hours ago, the European parliament accepted a proposal '...on the retention of data processed in connection with the provision of public electronic communication services...'. Summarized: any data (internet connections, traffic, email, file sharing, SMS, phone calls) of 450 billion people of Europe has to be collected by telcos, to be used by governments in their fight against 'crime and terrorism' ... oh, and child porn, of course. In Germany, over-the-sea reports are limited and usually do not include the latest developments in law and order, but since Slashdot has readers all over the world, I would like to ask: how is the status of YOUR country in terms of anti-terrorism-laws, observations and such? Any recommendations where one can still live free and unobserved in a non-nanny state?"

Damn capitalism and power hungry politicians :o

If this continues, EU can become a Third Riech :o

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Well in Israel, where I'm from, you don't really feel like you're being watched all the time, eventhough the terror hasn't skipped my country... :(

When you go to a shopping mall, or a restaurant, your bag will be searched by a security man, but that is generally accepted by all people as a necessary mean to prevent suicide bombers from entering these places.

Where are you from, boo?

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think you mean a fourth Reich! :P

edit: i'm not a neo-nazi or anything, but a lot of people throw a lot of "bad" things under the nazi banner. They really weren't that bad in this respect compared to other nations at the time. (Not that I'm defending the holocaust or anything else that they did.)

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They really weren't that bad in this respect compared to other nations at the time.

I'm sorry about your family, but that really has nothing to do with this. I didn't say that the Nazis didn't do bad things, it just frustrates me that people will ascribe anything "bad" to Nazism.

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think you mean a fourth Reich! :P

If things really would go bad it would be named and called forth Reich, but it hasn't happend (yet...:P),

so instead you compair with something from the past and which people know about,

therefore I said Third Reich instead of Fourth Reich.

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