Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted...
by djeiasbsbo on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:36AM
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In 2012, the swiss people also rejected a referendum about longer holidays. Another weird one is the Federal Gambling Act, a referendum of 2018 that made it legal to DNS block unlicensed gambling websites (for tax reasons). The swiss people basically voted to approve censorship with that one.
[0]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/voters-say-no-to-longer-holiday...
[1]https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/201806...
Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted...
by nix23 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:06AM
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>The swiss people basically voted to approve censorship with that one.
Absolutely!! And the politicians said: But to all the young peoples..don't fear that's the only thing we do, it's to prevent excessive/addicted gaming.
And funny enough, now we have 10x more advertisements for online-casinos but Swiss based (probably we should talking about that addictive thing again? And maybe micro-transactions in Games too?)
> That said, I think Swiss laws are great and immune to a lot of bullshit.
In 2016, people voted in favour (65.5%) for giving mass surveillance power to our intelligence service [0]. And we also did it before it was cool (and legal), so trust us, we are good at that [1].
[0] https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20120872/... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal