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Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by voodooEntity on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:44AM (#48855840)
Some people say im rather pessimistic - but i still kinda hoped that the EU will not go down this path.

That said - i was obviously wrong.

I don't really know what else to say than : this breaks a fundamental foundation of privacy. Sure i was never 100% aligned with EU level decisions (neither with my residing country one's) but that's just... wrong on so many levels... how can i even still argue to people that EU and democracy are good if this is what its heading for?

Usually i try to explain stuff with common grounds, the bigger picture or whatever is fitting. You can't have everyone happy on every decision.

But at this point im lost of arguments. They just betrayed every citizen from my pov.

So whats my point of this comment? Maybe i need to vent in an environment where i think people might get how bad this actually is, since people IRL around me don't seem to remotly understand the impact....

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Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by debugnik on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:01AM (#48856643)
46 of 53 Greens/European Free Alliance MEPs voted to reject this, 3 abstained. Which greens you mean?

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775

Check the political groups tab. Yes means reject here.

Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by fp64 on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:23AM (#48856792)
And so did the right wing parties. EPP and S&P pushed this through
Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by lifty on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:25AM (#48858929)
My bad. The only point I was trying to make is that there’s no left vs right conclusions that you can draw from this.
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Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by lifty on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:47AM (#48856560)
We’re talking about erosion of privacy and draconian internet surveillance. Brexit was a major screw up and I’m not here to defend any side, just to dispel this illusion that somehow the left are the good ones and the right is the bad far right.
Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by gib444 on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:20AM (#48856396)
Did you forget your geography lessons?

The UK did not relocate to the South Atlantic in 2020

'Europe' and 'EU' are not synonyms

Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our... by flumpcakes on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:36AM (#48858538)
This is extending an existing law that expired.

Really you should have felt betrayed back in 2011.

This isn't Chat Control 2.0 - which is the thing that has been getting attention for the last few years.

E2E encryption should not be broken, we should find other ways to catch and find predators.

Scanning messages in platforms (Chat Control 1.0)? I honestly thought this has always been done, I don't consider any platform private.

A lot of Internet regulations are just catching up to ones that exist in meat space.

I think what scares people when the regulations come to the Internet is that they are highly automated, and I think there's potential for mass injustices when automated systems.

At the same time, the abuse of children has also been automated and amplified by the Internet. https://youtu.be/QYcAFanHwf8?t=1666