On 3/11/19, hikki@safe-mail.net <hikki@safe-mail.net> wrote:

They're basically talking about eliminating criminal activities facilitated online by the darknet, by making Tor and the dark web illegal and inaccessible in Europe. It was also stated that most of those who access the dark web are actual or potential criminals who need to be stopped before they harm anyone, and that the disadvantages of the darknet are much more than the advantages.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Europaeischer-Polizeikongress-Weg-mi...

Could this be the beginning of the end?

If you're not running for Political Office in Germany, yes it is. Same goes for any other country, including the USA. Until then, they will simply overrule you and not give a shit about your pithy little sign waving protests, wannabe online activism, and low dollar lobbying... you're deleted, you're not really competition they have to care about. Re-educating the public masses out from under childhood indoctrination is a decades slow process, infiltrating your self / agenda into Office is much faster... witness them doing it every election cycle ;) Or you could try in the open like Free State Project / Pirate Party. When Facebook, Google, Governments and whatever other anti-privacy surveillors data brokers/miners, spies, control force freaks, taxing thieves for war torture murder... go bankrupt, you win. Win you open multiple fronts, writing and/or vetoing laws to help do it, it'll happen a bit faster... if you're actually not, or don't become, one of them... which is rare... as no revolution in history has ever lasted... yet. " European Police Congress: Away with the Darknet At the European Police Congress in Berlin, a ban on Darknets in free democratic states was called for. To start on one's own behalf is supposedly bad style. But this note is necessary this time: heise online operates since 2016, the hot tipster, which is accessible, inter alia, via Tor and whistleblowers a secure contact address in this "Darknet" allows, which was used several times. No room for Tor If the current federal government decides, then this may be a criminal offense in the future. At the opening of the 22nd European Police Congress in Berlin, Günter Krings, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, demanded a radical ban on Tor: "I understand why the Darknet can be of use in autocratic systems, but in a free, open democracy, I think for no legitimate benefits, those who use the Darknet are usually up to no good, and this simple realization should also be reflected in our legal system. " The needs of whistleblowers have no place in the world view of Krings, which demanded a second IT security law, which should be implemented later this year. In the remainder of his speech, the CDU politician was primarily concerned with the SPD-led Ministry of Justice, which in his view, the propagated pact for the rule of law systematically undermines and delays. It would have long been possible to settle the question of what should happen to German jihad fighters who want to get rid of Kurds and Syrians, said the State Secretary. However, Krings praised the tool RADAR-iTE, which reliably identifies and classifies Islamists on a three-level scale. Krings was followed in the opening ceremony by Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the Austrian National Council. He praised China for not having any inhibitions and successfully ignoring data protection when analyzing citizens. His statement that there is a human right to political asylum, but no human right to asylum for economic or social reasons, fit into the picture he drew. European Border Patrol ... "