Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

Those people would ban printing press and jail Gutenberg to protect the children.

They would not ban it, they would insist that only they have the moral high ground to use it. Whenever laws like these come up they write explicit exemptions for themselves into them.

They don't see themselves as merely human, they consider themselves as our betters. The closest thing to a ruling class with divine mandate we have today. That von der Leyen got her position in spite of election results is only the icing on the cake.