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.
Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Dasnap@lemmy.world 5 months agoYou’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 months ago
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 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
Grippler@feddit.dk 5 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.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 months ago
Ha, fuckin’ touché
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 months ago
Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 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.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 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.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 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
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 months ago
Doesn’t change who’s in charge now
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 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.
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Someone won big yachts from Putin.