The CDU is legendary known for its umpteenth attempt to introduce illegal data retention (condemned by Germany's highest court).
The SPD - which is also part of the ruling coalition - is a flag in the wind as it has proven since coming to power. They will do anything to stay in power.
Deep down, Client Side Scanning that's what both want.
> Deep down, Client Side Scanning that's what both want.
Let's be absolutely real the CDU wants complete government access to all private communications on demand with essentially endless retention. They just aren't allowed yet.
Funny thing is, the last few times some guy attacked people, a few days later we could read or hear in the news updates that that person had already been known to be violent, and quite a few times we also learned that they were supposed to have been deported.
Information does not seem to be the bottleneck at all! (Too) Many times, when we read about the person responsible for some sudden attack, everything needed to prevent that attack had already been known well before the attack. It's just that the authorities didn't do anything.
Sure, one may say there are too many people fitting the criteria and we cannot do anything with so many potential suspects, most of whom have not actually done anything. But more information won't help in these many cases at all.
Examples (German) - all reputable sources, mostly local public broadcasting (ARD) and one law publisher:
Don't fall for the meme that this is to protect "the people". There's a literally 1984 Quote about it:
> "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power"
They have the crosshairs on preparing the government and law for the AfD take over for the second trial of 1933. Just like the useless Bundestag of Weimar, they would like to leave as many mines and holes in the democratic institutions so their true self can show how perfect a racist government feels.
CDU doesn't need to secretly work with AfD. Many of CDU's members and its current administration have similar opinion of non-ethnically-Germanic residents with AfD. Merz has shown that he is willing to work with AfD before the election on those areas.
Being incompetent and shortsighted is enough. Being blinded with the idea that Germans will keep electing them and choosing them for power feeds their incompetence. They want extreme powers now. They don't think the extreme powers they give to the various organizations will be used against democratic society. This is just the repeat of Weimar republic.
Meanwhile they are filling Germans with hate against minorities and benefactors of the social system which legitimizes AfD. They also keep doing nothing (which is their core-competence really). They fix no parts of the broken system. This legitimizes AfD even more.
Also look where she is now: president of the EU commission. Even though she's a very unlikable person and for good reasons, too - she is from a political family and knows how to seek her advantage.
That is not correct. There is quite some opposition to this BS within the party. Just look at the SPD associated net policy think tank D64, we absolutely oppose this kind of legislative turd.
The CDU is legendary known for its umpteenth attempt to introduce illegal data retention (condemned by Germany's highest court).
The SPD - which is also part of the ruling coalition - is a flag in the wind as it has proven since coming to power. They will do anything to stay in power.
Deep down, Client Side Scanning that's what both want.