... 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 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao bait and switch

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 18 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like the United States.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Definitely less worse but still shitty indeed

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year 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 19 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Police, no. Homeland security? crickets

[–] Pips@lemmy.film 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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 5 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't this breach multiple EU privacy laws?

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

This is what I'm wondering.

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[–] lokitkhemak@programming.dev 51 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

How to make your country burn faster 101

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago

It’s almost like Macron wants to be decapitated.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

1984 - George Orwell tried to warn us.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 8 points 1 year 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 21 points 1 year 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 15 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] average650@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Recently the French police seem to be worse.

[–] Awthatsnotright@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] beard__hunter@lemmy.fmhy.ml 18 points 1 year 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 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

...hold my sancerre!

-- Emmanuel Macron, probably

[–] SafetyGoggles@feddit.de 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SoulKeeper@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Privacy and anonymity is illusion.

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

Is this a legitimate source of news?

[–] drahardja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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

[–] hebiyoujo@tucson.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

France always was a weird country

[–] downpunxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

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