Top four EU fails

1. Privacy protections weakened

2. Mass surveillance

3. Policy-based evidence-making

4. Oettinger, or where are the experts?

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1. Bad architectureaka EU institutions

2. Bug in the OSaka legislative processes

3. Bad RAM aka lack of institutional memory

4. Bad devicesaka lobbyists & eurocrats

5. DoS attacks aka repeated tabling of the same bad proposals

The reasons...

1. Bad Architecture

The EU institutions and their structures

No Trias Politica

● European Parliament cannot initiate legislation

● Council of Ministers instead of Council of Parliaments

● Members of Commission or Council cannot be sent home

● Citizens have limited access to Court of Justice

We cannot have a more democratic European Union

without Member State governments ceding power to either national parliaments or the European Parliament

Failure of 4th Estate

● BXL coverage by national media after the fact

● Little presence of national media in BXL

● Everything in BXL seems designed to bore to death

● Too few civil servants (way less than typical member state govs)

Run diagnostics and repair

Power to the European Parliament!

2. Bug in the OS

The legislative processes

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Fix bugs in the operating system aka make the EU more transparent

3. Bad RAM

Lack of institutional memory

We need to be the memory

of policy-makers

4. Bad devices

Lobbyists, eurocrats

Hyperlinks as copyright infringement

(eudatap video slavery)

5. DoS attacks

The same flawed proposals are being proposed over and over

again

ACTA zombies:Digital Single Market leak

ACTA zombies:Net Neutrality - Commission

proposal

Reasonable traffic management measures shall be (...) necessary to:

"implement a legislative provision or a court order, or prevent or impede serious crimes"

Connect good devices(aka get involved!)

"In many instances activism is only needed because of those complacent people who fail to exercise their

citizenship." - Gabrielle Coleman

„We're civil society, we don't

have to be civil.“

First stage

GET INFORMED

If the media are failing us, we can bypass the media. We're from the internet, and the internet is about bypassing gatekeepers.

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Second Stage

● Contact your MEPs● Ask your MEPs about relevant dossiers

● Write and maintain code that helps others (ParlTrack, Memopol, Pippi Longstrings)

We are short of people, had to let go of important dossiers about digital signatures, trade secrets,

travel surveillance

We are short of knowledge, being involved in the BXL bubble without technical backing is hard

Participate

Questions?

@kirst3nf

@whvholst