This kind of thing just confirms how it's really all about the Power elites keeping an eye out on the plebes trying to organise and change things so that they can kill any such things in the early stages.

Democracy was supposed to slowly bring Autocracies around to its way of doing things but instead what we're seing is the very opposite of that.

European aristocracy is scared of the working class. They will tremble...! < Bolshevik chorus swells >

Thumbnail looks like a really confused Canadian flag.

Privacy is for the elites, what needs do the peasants have for it anyways?

Encryption for me but not for thee.

You could say that for everyone pushing for an encryption ban. If they use whatsapp, encryption, if they use https websites, encryption. Banning encryption is nigh impossible, it's like trying to ban prime numbers. What they'll actually do is get even easier backdoors and criminalise the masses that use it while still using it themselves.