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.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Are you reading your own sources…?

    A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals

    Considering (another quote from your own sources):

    Negotiations will now begin between the Parliament, the Council of the EU, which represents national governments, and the European Commission to determine the final shape of the law

    They might as well look at the UK, and go “OK, lets have the user click that they pinky promise they’re 18”.

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I have: here’s the relevant paragraph from the directive:

      Amendment 186 Proposal for a directive Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year.

      Pinky promise is explicitely not allowed.

      And you’re doing the exact thing: blaming the specific implementation 🙂 It’s so sad that that still tricks people. Is this your first time learning how a EU directive works?

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Tell you what: let’s wait the 5-10 years of consultations and see what they end up doing, then let’s come back to this discussion.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            That’s basically the definition of democracy.

            “Democracy is a horrible system, but nobody has invented anything better yet”. Can’t remember who said it. Churchill, maybe?