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Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by orwin on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:09PM (#37265893)
The pirate party, not the green party, had a bit of support in Scandinavia, a lot less in Germany, and in France, in 2011, they could barely present 200 candidates in 50k areas, and i'm pretty sure their only access to 'powerful' people was the condescending sympathy of a single billionaire and maybe some secret service.

And a single member in the French parliament (900+) ever listened to pro-liberty lobbies like lqdn, and fought for it. So yes, it's pretty grassroots.

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Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by seydor on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:15PM (#37265956)
the gdpr was initiated by german greens
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Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by orwin on Saturday August 26, 2023 @05:14AM (#37270992)
Legislatively, yes. Politically, it's from ex-members of the 2011 pirate party (many of its members ended up in the greens).

And I'm arguing against 'it's not grassroot'. My argument is that it's as grassroot as support for Snowden, wikilealks, whistle-blower protection. Because all of the was in the 2011 pirate party manifesto. It happened that only this legislation caught interest of other parties, but it's origin is grassroot. Have you heard of framasoft?

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