<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tagoregrtst</author><text>Get off your high horse.&lt;p&gt;This is a long term international effort where irrelevant Western countries in the peripheries (that’s the EU) have nibbled away at encryption protections to make it easier for the US to do the same. It’s part of a two decades long effort by Western elites to correct their mistakes from the nineties - namely loosening the noose on information and privacy.&lt;p&gt;Australia, France, UK all have draconian laws that would cause outrage (or are outright unconstitutional) in the US. The only data protection the EU has is because fussy Eurocrats are annoyed that the US (and not them) get to syphon all of European’s data.&lt;p&gt;The US is really flawed, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t move back to the EU for double my family’s income.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i5heu</author><text>I guess this is the end of &amp;quot;sending customer data to the us&amp;quot;.
Quite impressive how fast the US-politics can burn billions in $, endanger the technological lead and build a massive opportunity for Europe!&lt;p&gt;I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint.&lt;p&gt;Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>Then there&amp;#x27;s chatcontrol in the EU. Welcome to Europe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;members-of-the-european-parliament-warn-against-commissions-chat-control-mass-surveillance-plans&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;members-of-the-european-par...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>i5heu</author><text>I guess this is the end of &amp;quot;sending customer data to the us&amp;quot;.
Quite impressive how fast the US-politics can burn billions in $, endanger the technological lead and build a massive opportunity for Europe!&lt;p&gt;I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint.&lt;p&gt;Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act</url></story>