Eva Vlaardingerbroek on surveillance

    von Pavellim: Eva Vlaardingerbroek

    Doing political journalism in Europe while aware that authorities are actively hunting me, and spyware built for intelligence services and mercenary structures is aimed in my direction, that forces me to weigh every single word. Not because I'm trying to break the law.

    Transkript (en)

    So exactly the reality that Dries just described, you know, the feeling that you are always being watched, that every picture that you take of your child, that every moment that you have in private is in fact not private. That is scary. It is scary and it is something that, even though I wouldn't want it to, affects me and influences me when I do my political commentary. I have to think about these things very, very carefully. Not because there is anything that I want to do or say that is illegal, but because I know that the rules don't apply to people like me the way that they might do to others. Even if I have no intention of breaking the rule, or if I did not break the rule, the rule has been designed in a way that it will break me. That is my reality. And that is the reality of these men here.