... wtf is going on over there... What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I'm American, I know I can't throw stones here, but y'alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should've listened.

But, wtf?

btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We elected him as the "last rempart to the extreme right". Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lmao bait and switch

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like the United States.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They have proportional representation and a ton of parties. It's a completely different kind of suck. Although I guess they also are presidential.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago

Definitely less worse but still shitty indeed

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So what would be a good system? FPTP also sucks, or at least does for local minority voters like me, or if both parties become weak for whatever reason like in the US.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Sinemaed.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You know that America just... does this, right? No bill, no law... In fact it was the first to do this at all. It's why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

No, the "Patriot" Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the "Freedom" Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what's allowed.

[–] AreYouNotEntertained@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is not legal for police to spy on citizens via their phone cameras in the US…

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

[–] Pips@lemmy.film 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn't make it legal.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal

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[–] angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

The movie citizen four did an excellent job detailing different ways a government (in this case the united states) can do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour

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[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here

Right? I'm wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF

[–] ChronoPixel@lemmy.world 115 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

[–] Awthatsnotright@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is what I'm wondering.

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[–] lokitkhemak@programming.dev 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

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[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

How to make your country burn faster 101

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 years ago

It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they've been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is bad, but that's such an overused comparison. It can even be counterproductive because the Oceania from the books is so obviously different from the real world.

[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I’m talking about the wall in their rooms though that they can use to listen in when they want, you have no private conversations.

[–] Dr_Toofing@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The article does not mention, how will this be achieved technology wise? I don't know of any universal way that a government might activate these features on a person's phone. Unless network operators/phone manufacturers start installing backdoors. This does not bode well.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Cell carriers can already push apps to your device.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthickey/2014/12/01/carriers-can-now-install-apps-on-android-handsets-without-customers-permission/?sh=2f169ccc5dde

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[–] alliswell33@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The US has exported it's police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it's all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Not every bad thing people do is the fault of the US.

The French can be proper assholes. Look up the history of Haiti and which European colonies purchased the most African slaves.

Then ask. Where did all they go?

[–] NuMetalAlchemist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

France has been burning itself to the ground longer than the US has even been a thing.

[–] average650@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Recently the French police seem to be worse.

[–] Awthatsnotright@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

The Patriot Act took care of that for us in the US!

[–] beard__hunter@lemmy.fmhy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

I am Indian. Even our douche bag of politicians will think twice before passing such legislation. Of course they will spy illegally on us but they won't pass such obvious fascist legislation.

[–] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do they like, want the protests to continue on our something? They can't be that stupid.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

The protests are for police brutality against Minorities. Apparently the shot 17 years old kid was repeatedly hit with back of the gun which made him moves his leg away from the breaks and since it's an automatic the car started moving forward...the rest is history.

[–] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

...hold my sancerre!

-- Emmanuel Macron, probably

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago

At least it's happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

[–] SafetyGoggles@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A Google search for "France phone camera" only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.

So I'm gonna go with "this is very possibly fake news".

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/06/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones_6044269_7.html

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

~~LIberté~~, ~~Egalité~~, ~~Fraternité~~.

[–] SoulKeeper@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

[–] Miczech@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this a legitimate source of news?

[–] drahardja@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It’s based on a syndicated news release from Agence France Presse. Here’s a direct transcription of the article from AFP: https://www.barrons.com/news/france-set-to-allow-police-to-spy-through-phones-b21f1f21

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

France always was a weird country

[–] hebiyoujo@tucson.social 4 points 2 years ago

I see this going very poorly very quickly. I don't know how much longer we're going to have a France after this, but I'm interested in seeing how this unfolds.

[–] downpunxx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

that'd be the point I'd forgo smartphones entirely

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