Many people rightfully criticize the Bush administration for sacrificing freedoms for (a feeling of) safety but European governments do the exact same thing.
In Germany, a proposal from the Ministry of Justice would essentially prohibit using false information to create an e-mail account, making the standard Internet practice of creating accounts with pseudonyms illegal.
A draft law in the Netherlands would likewise go further than the European Union requires, in this case by requiring phone companies to save records of a caller’s precise location during an entire mobile phone conversation.
And the real problem is that my fellow Europeans just let it all happen. Our media aren’t paying a lot of attention to it.
One of the problems with most European cultures, at least with the Dutch culture, is that we trust our respective government too much and too easily. As a conservative liberal I don’t trust my government blindly, which puts me at odds with the majority of my fellow countrymen.
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