Love these copium posts how EU is totally fine. What about the Draghi report? You can't get a more eurocrat person than Draghi, and even he criticized EU sluggishness...
I get why some Americans complain so much about the EU - it’s not about complaining about “socialism,” it’s jealousy....
USA vs EU (per 100k unless noted):
1️⃣ Life expectancy: 79 vs 82
2️⃣ Infant mortality: 5.4 vs 3.2
3️⃣ Maternal mortality: 21 vs 5
4️⃣ Drug overdoses: USA 19× higher
5️⃣ Murders: USA 6× higher
6️⃣ Road traffic deaths: 13 vs 4
7️⃣ Healthcare: US 17% vs. EU 10%, yet Americans have nothing to show for it...
8️⃣ Homelessness: USA 4× higher
9️⃣ Child poverty: USA 2× higher
🔟 Prison population: USA 5× higher
1️⃣1️⃣ Police killings: USA 17× higher
1️⃣2️⃣ Rape rates: USA 5× higher
1️⃣3️⃣ Workplace fatalities: USA 2× higher
1️⃣4️⃣ Guns: USA 8× more
1️⃣5️⃣ Suicide rate: 14 vs 10
1️⃣6️⃣ Adult obesity: 40% vs 23%
1️⃣7️⃣ Student debt: USA 12× more per student
1️⃣8️⃣ Paid vacation: 0 vs 20 days
1️⃣9️⃣ Freedom of speech (global indices): EU higher (!!)
2️⃣0️⃣ Government debt/GDP: ~120% vs ~85%
2️⃣1️⃣ Happiness ranking: 24 vs 1
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.
The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.
The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services.
Mullvad has spent the last three years opposing Chat Control 2.0 – even though the law would have affected our business positively.
We will continue to fight Going Dark with full force, regardless of whether VPNs are included or not. If VPNs are included, and if Going Dark becomes law, we will never spy on our customers no matter what.
The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be stopped. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now present "And Then?"
The backstory: https://t.co/rwbbh0DoKH
President Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
Good.
Ulbricht has served almost 10 years of a life sentence for creating the Silk Road website, where people bought and sold things the government didn't like.
Debunking BS
Surgeon General declared ALL drinking=cancer. They can't read their own data!
Heavy drinkers, 7.2%, cause 75% of cancers.
Allora: Risk ratios are TINY for LIGHT drinkers, offset by a walk in the park listening to Rachmaninov.
Cheers!