You need to know that Hungarian politics is often very low quality and caters to stupid people. They said that encrypted phone apps (specific apps designed for encrypted communication like CryptTalk) should be banned due to terror threat. Terror threat is a very new idea in Hungarian politics since the migration crisis and the recent Western European terror attacks.

So now they also tried to say something big and bold like those ideas they read about in the newspapers. These politicians are mostly old people, most of whom studied law (or economics). They have no idea about technology. The prime minister is a digital illiterate. He doesn't use computers in his work, he writes pen on paper and reads everything printed. In 2007, he didn't even have a mobile phone. (He has one since he's prime minister again, a Nokia dumbphone)

They truly didn't have a clue, when they proposed this. We are a small country and we have some incompetent politicians. It's not comparable to the US government stating something like this.

They also tried to introduce an Internet tax based on gigabytes of traffic. They like to throw in ideas like this so the press has some bullshit to dwelve on. Then they back off.

So news about what the Hungarian government plans to do should not be taken too seriously, because they like to drop topics around.

I'm Hungarian. This is just another populist act of the Fidesz government. They recently went full retard with anti-terrorism and this is part of their action plan.

I doubt they are serious, but it would be potentially used against the enemies of the state or it's perfect to distract the media so they could carry on stealing.

Indeed. These nonsense plans makes the journalists busy, so they don't have remaining resources to investigate and make as loud the things happening in the shadows.

They can't, as this forum auto-redirects to https.