Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

• dactylotheca@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.

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    • dactylotheca@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha, fuckin’ touché

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.

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    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The labels get confusing especially between countries, but left and right are normally viewed as being economic policy classifications, but you can have authoritarians on right and left and all need to be fought.

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      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did found: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ All the red countries where in favor actually. Yellow were in research. Green is opposed.

        here is the document itself: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11316-2024-INIT/fr/pdf#page=4

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    • dactylotheca@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t change who’s in charge now

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      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general. So I think it's a very bad decision to give these people power over these kinds of rules. They just have no idea what they are doing frankly.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering that the extreme right just won big

    Someone won big yachts from Putin.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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