David Thunder

The author argued that socialist regulations in Spain had severely damaged trust between landlords and tenants, which they said was necessary for a properly functioning market. They claimed squatters had been rewarded and tenants who did not pay rent had been protected from eviction, making it hazardous to rent out property in Spain. #España #Alquiler #Socialismo #ES

The author accused Sánchez and his socialist government of showing contempt for the democratic process, saying they had used a technical pre-election loophole to pass the same housing decrees rejected by the national parliament. The author said the move suggested parliament’s voice counted for nothing. #Democracia #Gobierno #Vivienda #ES

If your close colleagues, brother and wife are all embroiled in corruption scandals and you are the Prime Minister of Spain, *even assuming you are personally just an innocent bystander* (which seems highly unlikely to me), surely the honorable thing to do is to resign so that a #Spain #Corruption #Resign #ES

You don’t have to buy the most extreme version of AI fears (“AI will kill us all”) to understand that it is a technology with huge risks for humanity. There is no room for complacency, but banning AI is not realistic either. It needs to be regulated but how? #AI #AIEthics #TechRegulation #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweet.

Many medical professionals are prepared to have an honest conversation about adverse effects of drugs like penicillin but treat vaccine harms as a taboo topic. We need to turn the page. #VaccineDebate #MedicalTransparency #HealthConversations #Therearenospecificcountryreferencesinthetweetprovided.Hence #nocountrycodescanbereturned.

“22 EU countries have signed the letter led by Italy and Denmark to strengthen external borders and accelerate expulsions.” - Even if the Ceuta crisis is not *only* a consequence of poor border security and bad immigration policies, it is partly caused by the weakness and #EUImmigration #BorderSecurity #Expulsions #IT #DK #EU

People in power flat out lied about the Covid crisis. They said things they themselves did not believe, to intentionally mislead the public for political or economic gain. That is the sad truth about what happened in 2020-2022. #CovidLies #PoliticalDeception #TruthMatters #Nospecificcountrycodesareidentifiedintheprovidedtweet.

“A slow accumulation of permissions that governments grant themselves while the public is distracted.” - Well put. The architecture of population surveillance is being put in place, piece by piece, and it is *always*, supposedly, for our “protection.” It is not too late to fight #SurveillanceState #PrivacyRights #CivilLiberties #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

A few simple questions: 1. Is this age verification data hackable? The track record of government-run databases suggests it absolutely is. 2. Do you think having more identity gatekeeping on social media, overseen by EU or national governments, will make you safer? Or more #AgeVerification #DataPrivacy #SocialMediaSafety #EU

“Democracy in Europe died a bit today.” - It was already moribund but this sort of takes the biscuit. It even surprised me that EU officials would pull off a stunt like this one. They are desperate to get these surveillance measures through, whatever it takes. #Democracy #EUSurveillance #Europe #EU

This is playing with democracy, using the rules unfairly to overcome opposition. Playing with democracy to push through more surveillance tools to keep citizens "safe." This is what the European Union has become, and sadly, what many of its member States have become too. #Democracy #Surveillance #EUDemocracy #EU

"Procedural coup" is exactly the right term to describe what just happened in the European Parliament. Finding a sneaky loophole to get around the awkward fact that a measure does not have majority support in the Parliament. #ProceduralCoup #EuropeanParliament #MajoritySupport #EU

For every surveillance measure aimed at child protection, consider (a) what are its real, tangible benefits in terms of preventing bad actors from abusing the internet? (b) what are the risks of such a measure for citizens' freedoms more generally? and (c) are these risks #ChildProtection #Surveillance #InternetSafety #Nospecificcountrycodesarereferencedintheprovidedtweet.

The restriction of VPNs, which are one of the ways you can access the world wide web even if your government tries to stop you, is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes like China, Russia and Iran. U.K. is now on course to join them. #VPN #Censorship #Authoritarianism #CN #RU #IR #GB

Watch out because if you live in Europe, you now have multiple layers of taxmen competing for your money. And if you think your local or national government's interests may diverge from yours, consider how wide the divergence is likely to be in the case of a transnational #TaxCompetition #Europe #TransnationalIssues #EU

Here's one way to deal with media you disagree with: dismiss them as "far right" and evade their questions as a some sort of "principled" position. But this is not just an avoidance of the questions of one media organ: it is also a disengagement from the chunk of the electorate #MediaBias #PoliticalDisengagement #FarRight