EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encryption

Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by mrtksn on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:54AM (#37897641)

As I said, EC members are appointed by the elected governments and EP and the EP members are directly elected. If you don't like it you can start or join a political movement to change it or political movement to exit the EU.

However it's not O.K. to go around claim that those people are appointees of 3rd parties and are agents of companies and rule with impunity and the EU citizens can't do anything about it. It's a misrepresentation of the reality.

It's like claiming that British PM and the US president are not elected. While technically true, it misrepresent the democratic system.

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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by zosima on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:25PM (#37906879)

The individual commissioners are appointed by national governments in a completely opaque process.

The exact distribution of responsibilities of the EC and who is to lead the commission is determined through international diplomacy.

Sure, the democratically elected parliament can veto the commission. But not propose a new one.

To even start comparing it with elections for US president and British PM is disingenuous at best.

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