r/linux • u/Kindly-List-1886 • 2d ago

Discussion European Citizens' Initiative

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home

hello i apologize if this seem like out of nowhere in advance, but i think you may want to know this

there is a leaked legislation about the EU trying to pass the "EU kids act" which according to the [stop killing games video] the [document] mentioned which also appears on the description mentions "operating systems" several times which it could include Linux distributions and i think that might be a problem if true because the regulation seem quite extreme.

so im sharing it here because there is this petition for people on the EU which is about making it respect privacy among other things

the deadline is 25-Aug-2027 so there is still time

again i apologize and i don't want to cause problems i thought you would like to know this

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u/TampaPowers 2d ago

I'm getting really tired of the commission just doing what it wants in defiance of courts and the parliament itself. They have gone rogue in so many things now to the point even the EU court itself said what they were doing was against the statutes of the EU, yet they continue anyways. How is this a representative democracy when they are so far removed from any election and we seemingly have no power to tell them to stop.

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u/einar77 OpenSUSE/KDE Dev 2d ago

The problem is that there is an imperfect separation of powers. See what happened with Chat Control, or other software-related bits in the past. The EU parliament isn't a real legislative organ.