Thats only what abongs believe

Lel

>zero accountability

^^^^^

I wouldn't say giving ownership over content is authoritarian. Might want to revise free use laws a bit to make them more applicable though

I will agree on the limited accountability

Similar to uk

Limited political pluralism, that is such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups;

A basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency;

Minimal social mobilization most often caused by constraints on the public such as suppression of political opponents and anti-regime activity;

Informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers.[3]

Eu officials are as acountable es brittish peers

So let's see which of these are present in the EU

What are the differing parties of the EU?

What are the arguments for the EU that are not fear based?

What are the specific powers of the EU?

Are opponents suppressed?

the link tax is stupid

did that went through?

Sure fact that pirate party can get into eu parliament sounds like pluralism lol

link tax went too

As in it passed the vote

Yeah, article 11 got approved too

Link tax will end up as epic fail

How much influence can they viably exert?

spain implemented a link tax it backfired on the news outlets so bad, the news agregators and even google news left

now the news outlets have no reach

Thats what they want though

As much as any memeber of eu parliament

the less news they have the better, it lets the government set the narrative

they lost 40% of ratings in spain due to the link tax

the news outlets

Why should the EU care?

so this tax makes me think eu gets a %

The problem with link tax is they are dependent on google at the same time

$$$$

bureocrats love creating taxes

Tbh I think the most important, key elements here are the fear mongering supporting membership, the seeming lack of a rigid scope for EU powers (they keep expanding), and now the crippling of communication and news

What crippling of comunication exactly ?

Watch the EU try to outlaw populist parties in the next few years too. I bet you they do once they see the writing on the wall

yep

Hey zutt you wanna link to something?

Pay a tax

>do you have a license for that link?

i think they are trying to just censor the reach of the internet

and get money while at it

When it's taxes that are directed at mega corps, I'm open to them