EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal

Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass... by worldsayshi on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:16AM (#44169754)

I wish there was more potent ways to veto suggestions like this. Perhaps people should, in a democratic way, have the ability to ban representatives that are pushing these ideas, and many other, from politics for life.

But perhaps there's no way to make that "democratic".

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Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass... by pmontra on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:37AM (#44169979)

Well, it's the core of democracy: the right of never ever voting for a given candidate again. What you are writing about is probably denying to some people the right of candidating themselves or even the right to vote. There are examples: one of them is Italy banning the fascist party after WW2 and the descendants of the royal family.

Excerpts of Provisions XII and XIII of the Constituton, easily googlable:

> It shall be forbidden to reorganise, under any form whatsoever, the dissolved Fascist party

> The members and descendants of the House of Savoy shall not be voters and may not hold public office or elected offices

I read that Germany banned a right wing party that recently won quite a large share of votes. I'm not sure about the extent of the ban and if it's a ban at all.

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