BAM! It's official. The Dutch people have voted against the new surveillance law!

It's about 49 percent against vs 46 percent in favor and the other part voted blank.

I'm happy as fuck!

The others are from Rectum (NL), and were busy watching free premium porn.

@irene They actually found out yesterday that an official report which criticized this law very much was held back for 6 fucking weeks!

Although its narrow, it's a 'fuck you' to this law which is good enough for me :)

Why the fuck would anyone even vote to be surveillanced? It should be 100% against all of this fucking surveillance shit.

@Floydian 3-4 remaining percent I thought but they voted blank!

@Floydian Probably didn't vote / "I don't know" / "Undecided"-vote?

@systemctl BECAUSE WE NEED THIS TO FIGHT TERRORISM AND PEDOPHILES AND STUFF!!!!

@Linuxxx was exactly four seconds faster ;)

@linuxxx This is so fucking bullshit. Imagine if we had some kind of mesh network/something which is extremely hard to surveillance. Nobody would have to use proxychains / VPN / Tor anymore, imagine the speed you could actually utilize from your internet connection :/

Congrats bro

@irene I was expecting the pro-side to win big time as they've been 'lobbying' a lot here so I'm happily surprised that not THAT many people have lost their brains!

Congrats! Brilliant news!

As long as all the code you write doesn't ask for any information from the user!

@qbalsdon I'm not a programmer 😅. I never ask for information I don't need, though!

@systemctl as great as a mesh network like your described would be in theory, I suspect in real-life it would be significantly slower than the existing internet infrastructure.

How would data even get transferred between continents without going over transatlantic fiber?

@Consolelog Half the people at my work deleted their Facebook accounts so happy about that but yeah good point!

NSA will still get your data though

I love Holland and the Dutch people. Good for you guys. Fuck yeah!

I'll be back soon for a visit!

It's disturbing that 46% still voted for a yes😐

If the losers are anything like British remain voters then they'll use every trick to demand a second referendum

@Wozza365 The referendum law has been cancelled here so they can't anymore.

Not happy about that though.

How are 46%of the people voting in favour?!

@lincredibleJC because 46% are in favor of a police state?

The "I have nothing to hide" argument is flawed. If that's so, they better have no locks, doors, and walk around naked.

Great I guess the Netherlands are my goto country then if I decide to leave Austria. We just got a law proposed that allows universities and industries to analyze all our data for statistics. Uhm.

BUT ofc its AnOnYMoUs because your name gets blacked out. Bitch what the fuck feed the data of one person to a neural network and you can narrow them down easily. Do they really think we are all this dumb?

@jAsE Ikr. It's where stars become little suns!