It's also a bit like when the government bans opioids because they're an addictive narcotic, but then allows their use in specific circumstances where the benefit outweighs the downsides, and then works with the industry to try and make it harder to abuse them.

It's like a lot of things.

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trueismywork 7 hours ago | parent [-]

But they aren't working with industry here.

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delusional 7 hours ago | parent [-]

We aren't at that part of the EU legislative process yet. First the commission agrees on a framework, then the working groups work with industry to fill out the details of the framework. That's standard EU process.

	▲	bccdee 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Okay? The framework being proposed here is designed to enable universal communications surveillance. No combination of "details" would make that acceptable.