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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by tarakat on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:30PM (#32915002)
We've seen where this leads to in the US, where the federal government financially extorts states to fall in line on issues that are supposed to be up to the states, such as what happened with speed limits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...

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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by int_19h on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:05PM (#32917065)
The difference is that EU member states have the right to leave if they don't think the arrangement benefits them.
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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by tarakat on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:55PM (#32917681)
And we must ensure that choice remains economically viable, and not just for the largest member states. Because a union maintained by compulsion, even economic compulsion, is not a union, but an empire.
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Re:Germany's blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top c... by humanistbot on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:13PM (#32919478)
Or a state.
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