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Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders

www.theguardian.com

Summary

Hungary’s parliament passed a law banning Pride events and allowing facial recognition to identify and fine attendees.

The legislation, backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s party, passed 136-27 and expands Hungary’s “child protection” law, which restricts LGBTQ+ content. Amnesty International condemned it as a “full-frontal attack” on LGBTQ+ rights.

Critics argue Orbán is scapegoating minorities to distract from economic issues and boost far-right support ahead of elections.

Budapest Pride organizers vowed to proceed with their march despite fines of up to 200,000 forints (£425).

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Fuck Orban and all the autocratic assholes restricting freedom of expression around the world. This decade fucking sucks.
- Article 7 now! How much more "breaching of EU values" we need to see for something to be done? 😐

Soon coming to a red state near you!
- I was going to say…sounds like the USA in about three months. (Obviously trans discrimination is already here… I’m referring to the LGBQ discrimination being included.)
  
  Already happening, LGBT Charity and Pride organizations have reported they're not getting the usual donations from the usual suspects. When called to ask why, most of them said they literally can't because funding Pro-LGBT Charities and Events counts as violating Anti-DEI executive orders, so legal won't let them.
  Also in Executive Orders? Segregation is legal for Federal Contractors.
- This is already in blue cities they just use it against BLM and pro-Palestine organizers.

The EU should finally smite that asshole down.
- Kick them out of the EU, yes. Corruption charges.
  EU support has already been penalised afair, but we should stop treating Hungary like a normal member altogether (like delivering our citizens to Hungary for charges of hurting (protesting against) Nazis).
- I wish the conspiracy theories about european weater control were true
  Permanent thunderstorm for banning pride events
  
  Hungary would likely appreciate that for a while, since the puszta is undergoing desertification in recent years due to drought.

Facial recognition? .... attend gay pride events with the mask of your favourite politician
- while I agree, that'll earn you an instant arrest. you can't cover your face in autocratic states
  
  Seriously??

Banned AI applications in the EU include:
[...]
Real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition in public spaces
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence
Hungary is about to walk into a lot of fines.
- How about cutting veto rights and financial aid instead?

Which is highly illegal under the EU

I'm fairly sure that violates a few EU directives...
- Sadly The EU doesn't has the balls to kick this fuckers out of the EU. This is literally the only way to deal with this asshole.
  
  As a hungarian my opinion is that the eu thinks it can hang on to hungary so it doesnt go completely to shit. The problem is they are not nearly proactive enough to cause any change.
- Yes, but they just won't follow it, then cry at the EU for anti-christianity.

Just a reminder that there are ways to paint your face to make it difficult/impossible for facial recognition to work.
Not sure about Hungary, but I know the tech exists to identify people by gait as well. I've seen people suggesting to put a small rock in one of your shoes to force you to walk differently.
Stay safe.
- Cripes. This world…
- And remember, don't bring your own cellphone

I’m looking forward to seeing the most fabulous masks that feathers and glitter can buy in Budapest this year.
- I was thinking rainbow face paint with interesting paterns
  Masks work too though.
  
  masks plus sunglasses. most of facial recognition happens in the eye area not the rest of the face
  
  Invest in a Rorschach lol

Orban’s Hungary is Mini-Russia.

one word:
Fursuits

I dont even live in hungary anymore and im not even queer but im attending pride for my homies this year. Fuck orbán, bekaphatja a faszom

Hungary being a bitch is basically the only reason anyone even knows about this puppet country. The trolls of Europe.
- Trolls do it to be "edgy", Hungary does it because Orban sucks Putin's microcock at every opportunity.
  He fancies his chances as part of the Union of Soviet Suckers and Rubes, Putin's redo of the grand old "Soviet Empire". Fucking LOL.
- Fuck off with that.
  Your device runs Neumann memory architecture. Neumann btw is the father of Game Theory. He also did plenty of calculations for the Manhattan Project as he was a genius. Not to mention the other Hungarian Scientists on that project.
  Semmelweis the savior of mothers.
  Szentgyörgyi the discoverer of C vitamin.
  Rubik's Cube.
  Ballpoint pen.
  Safety match.
  Dynamo.
  These are all inventions by Hungarians.
  And there is plenty more, just because you are an ignorant slut doesn't mean that Putin's Slut is what makes Hungary Relevant.
  
  Bro im hungarian, dont try to be an apologist. Today everyone knows about hungary for their shit. All the things you listed were invented by people who are dead/at deaths door at this point. Other thing is most of them fled from hungary before inventing those things.
  
  🥱

Time to wear a lifelike Victor Orbán mask in a pride parade.
- dress up like daddy putin, then viktor cant ban it.

Make pride events like carnival; mask on.

Sounds to me like Hungary is a shit hole country
- Yup, Orbán lost an election in 2002, and he couldn't cope with it. So once he became PM again in 2010 (with a landslide majority of seats), he set to making sure he's never kicked out of power again. Now, 15 years later, Hungary has been mostly turned into an oligarchic dictatorship, the only steps he hasn't taken yet are disappearing people and overt application of violence :/

People calling for collective punishment of a whole nation are irrational. Even sanctions won't do shit.
The problem is reach. Whatever the EU does, thanks to Orbán and his cronies owning all terrestrial media and major online publications, the opposition gets drowned out in a sea of disinfo, controlling the rural population, which is 70% of the country. Antennae television and radio stations are still big there. Budapest ALWAYS votes against Fidesz.
EU needs to dust off Radio Free Europe, and also disperse leaflets in the countryside. Spend the EU money that Hungary would have gotten on such a campaign. Focus the campaign on the state of poverty, corruption, inflation, class division, infrastructure, education and health care collapse, instead of this sham parade of their "child protection act" that they want the population (and the EU) to focus on.
- The rule should be that if any country loses a condition that is a prerogative for joining the EU they should be put on a track to leave. If you dismantle democracy and hold the union hostage for millions, whilst shitting on its ideals. -> change your ways or get out.

What the fuck, Hungary!?

Today I learned that attender is a word. Is it more preferred in British English?
- No. Attendee or attendees are the correct terms.
  
  Not necessarily. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/attender

So those vote counts... The whole Orban thing... Sounds like it's kinda most of the whole country? As opposed to US being more 50/50?
Or is there subtext I'm unaware of?
- Despite the 2/3 majority in parliament, the actual vote head counts were closer to a 45/55 (or 48/52, depending on the source) at the last few elections. This is due to severe gerrymandering, excessive propaganda, oppressing opposition and independent media outlets, and intentionally cutting education funds.
  But I'm also both saddened and infuriated by the fact that while it's not the majority, still, HALF of the fucking country still supports this vile, hateful, corrupt, literally evil government.
  I guess there's no hope for the country, and it will soon devolve into another Belarus.

Times to remind these people that probably it was a riot and that full face coverings exist. Make them regret ever fucking with us

Child protection law? What are they projecting?

To the surprise of no one.

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