Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy
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In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This blocks the required majority in the EU Counci

Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.

And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.

EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

I quoted the article here with the news:

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.

The government did not take a position on the proposal.

This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    It was demonstrably not a lie. There were so many regions in support of it that it was dangerously close to passing.

    It really wasn’t. It couldn’t have been close to passing without a vote even taking place. The vote was scheduled for October 14th. However, since countries representing more than 35% of the EU population have declared their opposition to this proposal, it has been canceled.

    A lot of countries have indeed declared support, though this is completely separate from the vote. There, it’d require a qualified majority (55% of member states in favor, or countries representing 65% of the EU population in favor). Looking at MEPs’ public statements, it’s unlikely that the vote would have passed.

    Nonetheless, it remains troubling that they keep trying to force this proposal through. We have to push back every single time, but they only need it to pass once. Who knows what the future may hold.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      12 days ago

      It couldn’t have been close to passing without a vote even taking place.

      Huh? Do countries voicing their approval or disapproval not count as a “vote”?

      countries representing more than 35% of the EU population have declared their opposition

      That’s not even half…

      A lot of countries have indeed declared support, though this is completely separate from the vote.

      That’s because, as you mentioned earlier, the vote never happened.

      There, it’d require a qualified majority (55% of member states in favor, or countries representing 65% of the EU population in favor)

      Which, according to your own numbers, they already had.