@kapitolai_: This week the European Parliament voted on chat control, and more members voted against it than for it. It passed anyway. Chat control is an EU rule that lets platforms run scanning software over private messages, every chat and every photo, with no suspicion against anyone. A flagged message can become a police report about you. Officially it exists to catch child abuse material. In March, Parliament rejected extending it, 311 votes to 228, and the law expired in April. In June the Parliament's largest group brought the exact same text back, unchanged, under an emergency procedure. Under second-reading rules, blocking it required 361 of 720 members. 314 voted to kill it, 276 voted to keep it, and every member not in the room counted toward the law. The side with fewer votes won. Scanning now runs until 2028. Their own numbers say the tool fails at its stated job. The commissioner who championed it admitted 75% of the reports are not usable by police. Swiss federal police found about 80% criminally irrelevant. In Germany, nearly 40% of these investigations target minors themselves, teens sexting. And the paper trail says it was never staying limited to child abuse. Europol asked for unfiltered access to everything the scanners find; the internal minutes, released under freedom of information law, record the words "all data is useful" and propose extending the scanning to other crimes. The draft governments agreed on in November exempts the accounts of police, military and intelligence staff. The Danish justice minister driving the law said it out loud: it is an "erroneous perception" that communicating on encrypted messengers is everyone's civil liberty. And the EU's own security roadmap plans access to encrypted data by 2030. They told you it was about protecting children. Then they exempted themselves, demanded everything, and called your privacy a perception that needs breaking. #chatcontrol #eu #privacy #surveillance #fyp

Friday bird :

Big brother was a prediction.

ImBackKulíšci :

and ofc hes imune to that law

hheujdjxuux :

voted against and it passed

Babygirl :

They doing this with iMessage

luukka :

So we have democracy or we do not?

ruka.7r :

A machine or ai because ai is going to make a lot of mistakes

Karim Med :

democracy Huh

Seblo223 :

Peter skummelgaard

Nicklas :

thats not great for Anyone.

Magnus Krow :

🤣🤣🤣It was never encrypted. Thats the funny thing about this.

tiktokuserzi0 :

RageQuit Hero :

Kaninkallekarlsson :

Chat Control has been around as an EU proposal since May 2022, when the European Commission introduced the first version, often referred to as Chat Control 2.0. Since then, the proposal has gone through several rounds of negotiations and revisions. It has sparked significant debate over privacy, encryption, and child protection. As of 2026, it has not become a final EU law. Discussions and negotiations are still ongoing, and the proposal has changed multiple times since it was first introduced

Woodville :

commenting for the algorithm

123456789 :

roExit

Annoyed :

i want communism.

Chenc C :

“More people voted against it than for it” Shows the voting that clearly demonstrates that more people voted for it Thant against it, with a large portion abstaining or not showing up.

william skovsen :

Does chat control also reads the private messages of the politicians pushing this proposal?

Friday bird :

What if we create a new language

End-zone :

I'm a conservative and don't support luigi but we need him here