Such a rule is basically un-enforceable. Because it is nearly never exactly the same text. So it is always the first time voted on.
Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t this rejected once already? Perhaps if they wanted to do something useful, they should pass something that says that if something is majority disliked twice or something, then it should be withdrawn and not proposed again for at least 100 years.
cmeio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What they could do is create a law that protects the integrity of E2EE. At least in this case.
But I guess that will never happen.
uis@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Or law that forbids any mass surveilance. By any entity.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
They can just give it a new name and change some details to propose it again. Like how they made it “voluntary” this time (but you can only send text if you don’t agree).
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
Better define some basic human rights as a core tenet and fire repeat offenders.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They will keep trying again and again and again. The assault on privacy has been going on for decades and it will never stop.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Yep, and as I pointed out in another comment in this thread, Chat Control isn’t the only piece of legislation like this that’s in the works.
Considering that the extreme right just won big, I have no doubt that one of these fascist surveillance packages will go through. Yeah, at first it may be used for catching criminals, until it isn’t
Grippler@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.
uis@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Someone won big yachts from Putin.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
Yes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
And “Chat Control” isn’t even the only thing like this in the pipeline. There’s the so-called “security by design” bullshit (which does the opposite of what then name implies) that’s actually even worse than Chat Control and has also been worked on in secret, and which’d include mass scale surveillance of not just photos but pretty much everything, and is much more likely to pass than Chat Control.
oce@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
2001 especially.