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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 1 day ago by hatingfedizen@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71975475

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is the EU working as intended though.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

is it though? After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

yes, that's exactly what they want, what did you think? you live in a free country or some shit? i really dont get westoids, they literally invented fascism and caused 90% of the wars in the last 4 centuries and somehow they're the democratic people or something? smh

[–] huf@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

"i know it's smoking and smells foul like a 4 week old corpse but the bottle says YIM-YUM on it. how can it be bad?"

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago

I'm too optimistic indeed. Fk eu

[–] fox@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

The purpose of a system is what it does. If a measure repeatedly fails to pass and is then successfully made law regardless, then clearly the system must, in some way, be built to supercede voting authority.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes. the EU is a western institution, its purpose was never to act in accordance with the will of the ordinary people. it was to serve the capitalists.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 5 points 1 day ago

It was born out of the european community for coal and steel, how could it have turned out any different...