Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 months agoSource? 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.
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
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I think of authoritarian as being up and down, and social and economic views as left and right. Check out the political compass if you haven’t. It would be nice if it was 3D with economic and social policy being separated though.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve seen the compass, but in real life conversation when people say left or right they don’t exclusively mean economic views. For example, access to abortion or LGBT rights are generally seen as supported by the left and opposed by the right.
You’re right it’s reductive, and really there are many dimensions to political thought.