Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy
www.patrick-breyer.de
In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This blocks the required majority in the EU Counci

Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.

And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.

EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

I quoted the article here with the news:

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.

The government did not take a position on the proposal.

This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    3 days ago

    But even if they voted on it and even if it did pass. European courts probably would have stopped it immediately.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      Maybe, but I’m much more comfortable with it failing as early as possible

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

      That’s not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        I mean duh but similar bad things have passed and got rejected by courts so it‘s a very functional mechanism. The EU isn‘t very comparable to the US system by the way.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        You can‘t compare the US to the EU here. I would never say trust US courts. LMAO

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          The US has been basically completely flipped on its head in only a few short years into fucking authoritarianism. We have many measures in place to prevent this and they all fell apart. Our system was only loosely held together by good faith. And that faith is gone. And as a side tangent I’m not sure we’ll ever get it back. Be vigilant, it happens quickly.