In Germany they recently had a judge to allow for a swoop on annoying but harmless climate activists, including freezing their bank accounts and confiscating their homepage (in ridiculous ways, bc they only took the server and forgot assuming control over the domain).

It was very obvious that the ruling was politically motivated and they treated the climate activists like terrorists. What's alarming is that our governments seem to get more and more repressive.

For now.

Wire tapping has been approved this way for ages the 'for now' trope is getting old, because in some countries laws do work.

Edward Snowden is raising his hand, it seems he has something to add to the discussion

For now.

Well in France it doesn't: it is enough to attend a green meeting to be labelled & registered by gendarmerie

The easiest thing to be called nowadays is being a "terrorist", coming just after "nazi"