..and we keep fighting.

The Czechs got upset at EU-level efforts on gun control

Czechia has permissive firearm law

and passed an amendment to Czechia's constitution in 2021 guaranteeing certain firearm rights in Czechia. If the EU passed a directive that conflicted with it after that point without getting Czechs to approve an amendment to their constitution, Czechia would immediately begin violating the directive, which raises the stakes for people who wanted additional restrictions EU-wide.

One imagines that the same tactic could be used in other areas; if one or more EU members prohibited restrictions on end-to-end encryption or the like, it'd create a legal bar that would first need to be undone to create a restriction EU-wide.

That being said, if this sort of hardball tactic gets done too frequently, it'd make it really difficult to legislate at the EU level, because you'd have one state or another creating legal landmines all over.

And any other individual member could still impose their own state-level restrictions on end-to-end encryption in such a scenario

it'd only create an impediment to EU-wide restrictions.

In Athens they also ostracized people the majority didn't like from the polis, which is akin to what was once civil death.

Ancient Greece (and even less Rome, where I was born) are not at all my example of an enlightened society.

The question here is much simpler: Peter Hummelgård, Danish minister of justice and main author of the new proposal, is the man who got the Danish police a customized version of Palantir's Gotham to "fight immigrant gangs".

This is a man who recently said "we must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services", obviously lapping the peanut butter off Thiel's genitals.

Lobbying needs to be better regulated, but especially people like him and everyone who voted for his party should see our fingers pointing to their faces in real life and online.

That's how you fight this, by publicly shaming people for not grasping the fundamentals of Rights Culture.