On April 23, the German politician Patrick Breyer uploaded a meme to his Mastodon account. “Big Sister is Watching You”, it warned in big white letters, written behind a smiling photograph of Ylva Johansson, the EU commissioner in charge of home affairs. Within the bureaucratic confines of Brussels, it’s rare for a politician to evoke enough anger to feature on a meme—let alone be labeled as the modern incarnation of author George Orwell’s Big Brother by her colleagues.
But Johansson has become a divisive figure in Europe. The Swedish politician has positioned herself in the midst of a vitriolic debate over online child
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