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All hail our beneficent global bureaucracy! Filled with smart people who care deeply about our freedom and individual wishes. Now if I could just contact one of its accountable elected representatives to voice some concerns...

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Treaties need to be adopted by legislatures, lobby your national executive if you want to influence the text and the legislature if you want to influence its adoption or not.

Also these treaties aren't generally self executing nor enforceable, so you'll also be able to lobby your legislature when they'll be drawing up the implementing acts.

Epic gaslighting.

I suspect we should be blaming the diplomats and the national leaders giving them orders, who should be responsible to the people, not the UN bureaucracy or the people who work there that doesn't actually that much decision making power AFAIK.

This is the first time that the tools that make it feasible to impose surveillance at this scale.

The same tools, maybe not as intrusive, could be used to hold these people accountable?

(putting on my conspiracy hat) Hmm, maybe because this has become possible, the media is so flooded with noise. Any signal is drowned out.

Post this next time someone praises the EU for passing the barest of privacy laws.

I can and actually did contact my European Parliament representative with my concerns. ACTA protests were very successful. These people are answerable to their constituents in the same way as in any other representative democracy.

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