“Summing up: for the time being, if you run a social media company, or if you provide encrypted messaging services, which are accessible in France, and you’re based in the United States, get out of Europe.”
Yeah, Europe is becoming more and more authoritarian and less and less demoractic.
The Netherlands, the host country of the ICC, in 2021 made a law that anyone that works in a job with an obligation to secrecy cannot be prosecuted for lying under oath in a court. They cited an example of a lawyer client confidenially. They did not however, talk about the fact that now everyone in government can lie under oath in court. This undermines the very functional principle of a court of law. Lovely for the ICC.
In addition, they created an organisation called the RIEC, with does not have a natural person as it's presentative, which under Dutch law means that it cannot be taken to court by anyone. The gave this organisation control over not just criminal investigations but "interventions", which have no definition and can be anything. They can do anything against anyone and not be held accountabile. And typically they do this through weak civilian proxies for further deniability.
There's a 6x part Dutch documentary where it shows that 9 innocent people were sent to jail on fabricated evidence. One committed suicide. The Dutch will not re-open this case and the responsible person (The former head of the organised crime unit in Arnhein) is not the president of the court of Maastricht. Not fired, promoted.
