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Re:End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveilla... by munksbeer on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:28AM (#47531715)
> Non-elected representatives from my country keep pushing for chat control via the council. How do I, as a citizen, hold them accountable?

How is that an EU problem? Without the EU, like here in the UK, we had non-elected lobbyists pressuring our elected government to implement age checks, message scanning, etc. And it is still continuing.

You're fighting the wrong fight by blaming the EU for this.

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Re:End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveilla... by marginalia_nu on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:41AM (#47531874)
This is a highly solvable problem, one that is solved by not overloading the national elections with to different concerns.

EU has checks and balances that were intended for a trade union, not a nascent superstate. If we don't implement proper checks and balances in a real fucking hurry, we'll wake up one morning and realize the EU has turned into another Soviet union, and by then it'll be far too late to do anything about it.

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