• baru@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s just that the courts aren’t as enthusiastic about dispensing justice

    In Netherlands there was a system which was supposed to indicate if you maybe committed fraud regarding taxes and benefits. That system was completely buggy, plus highly biased. People went to the highest courts to prove their innocence and the courts rather trusted the tax authority, which trusted the system.

    Children were taken away from families, people lost their jobs, etc. This for around 100.000 people/families.

    The government knew and ignored that things were going wrong. A cabinet fell, people voted for the same people, pretty much the same cabinet was installed again.

    I wrote this from memory, there’s a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal?wprov=sfla1

    It went on for ages. People are still heavily affected. Most haven’t been helped. It is one of the many scandals as a result from a majority voting for the same right wing party. People were sold that all these problems were due to left wing parties, now there’s an even more extreme right wing parties trying to form a cabinet. Because obviously it wasn’t right wing enough. Urgh.