Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.
Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 months agoYep, 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
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 months ago
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.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think that’s accurate, there’s a social axis from left to right too.
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.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 5 months ago
Yep, no disagreement there. This sort of mass surveillance is a fucking terrible idea no matter who’s behind the wheel
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general.
There are pirates. Well, after last elections it seems to be only the pirate. One.
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Considering that the extreme right just won big
Someone won big yachts from Putin.
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