It was a close call the other day. Due to a push back from Germany the controversial danish proposed Chat Control laws were taken off the agenda for voting in the European parliament and while it went past most of the population of the EU and was only mentioned in passing in various media we need to acknowledge how close we came to the a real fundamental break in the history of european democracy. At stake was no less than the fundamental human right to privacy. The danish proposition and conciderable lobby is in short about creating laws which make surveiling online private messages and online private content mandatory in the EU. While most people might not grasp the subject matter we can use an analog here which is, the danes want laws for opening all the mails and all the packages you receive in your post box and it is about not just opening the mails and the packages, it is also about reading the content of all mails and inspect the content of all packages and this should be done by EU appointed third parties, not the police or the customers or anyone with the classic authority to do so. Does this sound bad enough? If you think so then lets just add to it what the danes want to do. They, in analog terms, also want to make sure the envelopes and the packages you receive are transparent so everybody can see whats in side. That is in simple real life terms what the danish government is pushing the EU to do. In more technical speak they want a backdoor sneaked into all online chat programs and all messages scanned for content and all files sent in private chats to be scanned. A consequence of this demand is that the encryption we the people depend on to make our online presence secure is weakened to the point it is completely useless and does not serve its purpose. Yes, ladies and gents, the danish government wants to go full Stasi on the population of EU and enable surveilance on a level unheard of because not only do they demand ripping apart our online protections, they also want their Palantir eye on everybody for surveilance. If you think this is repulsive and returning to the dark ages of the cold war you are not alone. It is repulsive and the danish government does not hide that personal privacy of the individual is the bane of their existance and the danish government makes it absolutely clear it is against people having online privacy and privacy in general. The danish prime minister is quite open about her opposition towards privacy and in her terms it is bad for the society. Why exactly its bad she doesnt explain but one tends to wonder where this hate towards personal privacy comes from so lets dig a bit deeper into the danish government. It is currently lead by the danish social democratic party which historically speaking has been left leaning and taking after the theorems of the nordic social democratism which in turn is a generic term used for similar ideology in the nordic countries. It is social democratism as defined as a democratic welfare state while incorporating both capitalistic and socialist practices but due to historical massive influx of sovet communism and socialism in the nordic countries the nordic version of social democaticm has always had a distinctive flair of communistic tendendies in it and one of those tendendices is the well known hate communists traditionally have on the concept of privacy. The theories behind this particular hate are long and documented elsewhere and wont be touch on here but needless to say, the notion of personal privacy has been iffy in the nordic countries and left leaning parties are generally against it and the danish social democratic party is no exception there. They simply see personal privacy as something not meant for the population and it is beneficiary for the state to keep personal privacy at minimum. If some of you have started to mouth the words nanny state by now this is exactly a part of it. It is very much the all seeing eye of the nanny state we are talking about here. However, as things have changed over the years nations and people have progressed and even in the nordic countries the concept of personal privacy has taken root and spread and with the advent of EU, which has traditionally been privacy focused up to a certain point, it has become more difficult for nordic governments to pursue their goals against privacy. However, this hasnt stopped the danish government as it has firmly placed its war against privacy as a battle against child abuse and the need for protecting the children and while there certainly is constant need for us humans to protect our young ones this worthy and nessesary cause is now used as a bait in the danish governments war against online privacy. Yet again are our children used against us adults in a political manner to persue a goal. And this makes me extremely irritated because I can see through the danish gimmicks right away. The danish government doesnt really care about the children and neither are they fighting for better protection. The children are a pretext here in a maccination of a power grab to increase surveilance and make those in power feel more secure about their seats. It has nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with the children. They are just puppets in an adult play here and I dont know which causes me more discust, the fact that the danish government wants to rip apart our online privacy or that they so shamelessly use children for their means and ends. We are talking about adults here using children for their own purpose. Its revolting and we as the population of EU should rise up against this misuse of children for political purposes. Too often do we land ourselves in the situation the authorities i.e. the government and or law enforcement peddle all kinds of nefarious things in the name of the children. For sure, we need to protect our young ones. It should be among our highest priorites to protect the innocent future of our societies but it needs to be done with care and with knowledge of the conseqences it has on the societies. If we take the danish government as an example and give them the benefit of the doubt and belive they are fighting for the safekeeping of the children why then is unlimited surveilance the best solution they come up with? How do they reach the conclusion surveiling all adults for potential threats is going to increase the safety of our children? Is it supposed to be a deterrence for the sicko minds that lurch on the internet? Is there going to be any net gain of this measure? Why arent they instead increasing police work around child abuse rings, doing real detective work, supporting countries where child abuse is ripe in their fight against it? I could go on, the list of counter measures is long and perhaps we come to the a real point here. It all costs money and resources and modern day goverments in the western world are famous for cutting back on resources to law enforcements to the point that for instance in Denmark, the police closes cases without investigation in a quota like system because there simply arent available resources to investigate every case. This is a real thing, the starvation of law enforcement and its hurting our societies. But as I mentioned before, this would be the case if we took it for granted the danish government was out there to save the children. We however know its not their intent and never has been. The danish government is calling for mass surveilance and I have in these written words traced broadly why. It simply is a part of the danish social democratic political makeup. In their eyes we the people arent supposed to have rights for privacy. It goes against the danish social democrat party core views and as I have mentioned those views can be traced back in history when the Nordic countries all dabbled in sovet communism with the consequent ideological hate for privacy. We the people need to be acutely aware that the danish social democratic party views this as a holy mission and it wont stop its lobbying efforts within the EU. It is imperative we all object to this senseless mass surveilance as loud as we can and we make ourselves be heard to our local politicians that this cant stand. We need to protect ourselves from this violent power grab into our lives and as one Europe declare the efforts of the danish goverment to be dangrous to us all and we must as one deny them the opportunity to take hold of our daily lives. Too much is at stake here. Say NO.